36 Cal. 3d 163 - People v. Lanphear’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Saffle v. Parks (1990), California v. Brown (1987)
46 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · 34 Cal. 3d 858 - People v. Easley · 26 Cal. 3d 814 - People v. Lanphear · 1 Cal. 3d 609 - People v. Bandhauer
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the current climate of public opinion, sympathy is more likely to be aroused for the victim and his family than for a defendant who has been found guilty of a brutal first degree murder. Thus cautioning a jury in the penalty phase of the trial not to be swayed by mere sympathy redounds to the benefit, not the detriment, of the defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. California v. Brown
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.