34 Cal. 4th 193 - In Re Seaton’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 52 Cal. 4th 610 - People v. McKinnon (2011), 36 Cal. 4th 595 - People v. Kennedy (2005)
3 federal appellate · 52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Duren v. Missouri · McCleskey v. Kemp · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general rule, 'the failure to object to errors committed at trial relieves the reviewing court of the obligation to consider those errors on appeal.' [Citations.] This applies to claims based on statutory violations, as well as claims based on violations of fundamental constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Blessett
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.