34 Cal. 3d 183 - People v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 31 Cal. 4th 518 - People v. Brown (2003), 47 Cal. 3d 888 - People v. Farmer (1989)
60 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · People v. Ford · 31 Cal. 3d 897 - People v. Cardenas
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that `we do not reach constitutional questions unless absolutely required to do so to dispose of the matter before us.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the record must affirmatively show that the trial judge did in fact weigh prejudice against probative value....”
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.