32 Cal. 4th 682 - In Re Steele’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2020 · most notably 41 Cal. 4th 1082 - People v. Zambrano (2007), 52 Cal. 4th 856 - People v. Clark (2011)
11 federal appellate · 162 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley · Lockett v. Ohio
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a showing that good faith efforts to obtain discovery materials from trial counsel were made and were unsuccessful.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“materials in the possession of the prosecution and law enforcement authorities to which the same defendant would have been entitled at [the] time of trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“or the constitutional duty to disclose exculpatory evidence”
5 later decisions 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.