34 Cal. 3d 251 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 495 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 502 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Lance W. (1985), 51 Cal. 3d 294 - People v. Jones (1990)
7 federal appellate · 495 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Kolender v. Lawson · Weaver v. Graham · Michigan v. Mosley · 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland
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 502 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By its plain terms, section 28[ (f)(2) ] requires the admission in criminal cases of all 'relevant' proffered evidence unless exclusion is allowed or required by an 'existing statutory rule of evidence relating to privilege or hearsay or Evidence Code, [s]ections 352, 782 or 1103,' or by new laws passed by two-thirds of each house of the Legislature.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies only to prosecutions for crimes committed on or after its effective date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if reasonably possible the courts must construe a statute to avoid doubts as to its constitutionality”
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.