34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1,126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,251 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley (1995)
45 federal appellate · 1,126 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Sparf v. United States · United States v. Dougherty · United States v. Spock · United States v. Buttorff · United States v. Grismore
Cited together with 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Strickland v. Washington · 35 Cal. 3d 131 - Carlos v. Superior Court
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 1,251 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o instruct on nullification at the outset of deliberations affirmatively invites the jury to consider disregarding the law. I understand the arguments against such a course and do not advocate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should have informed the jury of (1) its power to render a verdict more lenient than the facts justify, and (2) its immunity from punishment if it chooses to exercise that power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when the jury practically begged the court to show it a way by which to avoid a first degree verdict,”
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.