30 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Implementing this constitutional command, the decisions of [the California Supreme Court] have settled the now familiar rules that (1) jeopardy attaches when a defendant is placed on trial in a court of competent jurisdiction, on a valid accusatory pleading, before a jury duly impaneled and sworn, and (2) a discharge of that jury without a verdict is equivalent in law to an acquittal and bars a retrial, unless the defendant consented thereto or legal necessity required it. [Citations.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Bailey · 110 Cal. App. 4th 1347 - Evans v. Superior Court

2. “granting an unnecessary mistrial bars retrial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Cal. 5th 1077 - People v. Aranda