31 Cal. 3d 488 - People v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 73 - People v. Valdez (2004), 15 Cal. 4th 1188 - People v. . Scott (1997)
68 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial reasons for the rule that a criminal defendant is entitled to be tried in ordinary clothing[, f]oremost is the rationale that compelling a defendant to go to trial in jail clothing could impair the * fundamental presumption of our system of criminal justice that the defendant is innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The traditional test of harmless error is whether it is `reasonably probable that a result more favorable to the appealing party would have been reached in the absence of the error.' ( People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836 ....)... Some constitutional rights are deemed so basic to a fair trial that their violation requires automatic reversal. [Citations.] However, not all constitutional errors amounting to a violation of due process necessitate reversal per se. [Citations.] Where federal constitutional error is involved, the test to be applied is that laid down by the Supreme Court in Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18 .... Chapman requires that `before a federal constitutional error can be held harmless, the court must be able to declare a belief that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.' ( Chapman, supra, 386 U.S. at p. 24 ....)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[h]e suffers a disadvantage as a result of his poverty [and o]ur traditions do not brook such disadvantage. [Citation.]' " ( Ibid. ) However, we need not resolve the merits of Garton's equal protection theory; any such violation was harmless because the absence of his wedding ring did not impermissibly remind the jury of Garton's custodial status. 3. Analysis of evidentiary claim We next address Garton's claim that he was "entitled to wear his wedding ring to rebut evidence that he did not love his wife and child and to prove affirmatively that he did”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.