People v. Chessman’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 1132 - People v. Howard (1992), 77 Cal. Rptr. 2d 25 - People v. Frye (1998)
15 federal appellate · 89 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 Malony v. Adsit · 89 Cal. App. 2d 467 - People v. Ford · People v. Angelopoulus · 76 Cal. App. 178 - People v. Adams · 60 Cal. App. 2d 133 - People v. Lynch
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nconsequential inaccuracies or omissions in a record cannot prejudice a party; if in truth there does exist some consequential inaccuracy or omission, the appellant must show what it is and why it is consequential.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`that life without possibility of parole doesn't mean that at all, and that the jury should and must return the death penalty because otherwise there was imminent danger the defendant again would be loosed by a lax administration of the law to prey upon society because the defendant was a cunning individual who knew the angles.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Chessman · Chessman v. Teets“prepared in such a manner as to enable the court to pass upon the questions sought to be raised,”
2 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.