People v. Hambarian’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 1992
23 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 McCray v. State of Illinois · 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West · 8 Cal. 3d 77 - Theodor v. Superior Court · 50 Cal. 2d 245 - People v. Lyons · 55 Cal. 2d 282 - People v. Redrick
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hen the defendant makes an adequate showing that the informer may be a material witness on the issue of guilt or innocence, disclosure should be compelled or the case dismissed.' ( Theodor v. Superior Court, supra, 8 Cal.3d at p. 88 and cases there cited.) The showing required of a defendant seeking disclosure was delineated in People v. Garcia, 67 Cal.2d 830, 839-840 [ 64 Cal. Rptr. 110 , 434 P.2d 366 ] and has been frequently repeated in the decisions of the California Supreme Court (e.g., Theodor v. Superior Court, supra; Price v. Superior Court, 1 Cal.3d 836, 843 [ 83 Cal. Rptr. 369 , 463 P.2d 721 ]; Honore v. Superior Court, 70 Cal.2d 162, 168 [ 74 Cal. Rptr. 233 , 449 P.2d 169 ]: `[A] defendant seeking to discover the identity of an informant bears the burden of demonstrating that, " in view of the evidence, [fn. omitted] the informer would be a material witness on the issue of guilt and nondisclosure of his identity would deprive the defendant of a fair trial. " [Citations omitted.] That burden is discharged, however, when defendant demonstrates a reasonable possibility that the anonymous informant whose identity is sought could give evidence on the issue of guilt which might result in defendant's exoneration.' (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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