35 Cal. 3d 329 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 452 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 490 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez (1986), 41 Cal. 3d 144 - People v. Balderas (1985)
22 federal appellate · 452 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri · Adams v. Texas
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 490 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The alternate] would be joining a group which has already discussed and evaluated the circumstances of the crime, the capacity of the defendant, and other issues which bear both on guilt and on penalty. The resulting deliberations between old members . . . and new members ignorant of those discussions and conclusions, would depart from the requirement that jurors "reach their consensus through deliberations which are the common experience of all of them."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the juror's views would prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“assure-insofar as possible-that the decision-making process of a death penalty case is a coherent whole.”
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.