37 Cal. 3d 436 - People v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez (1986), 41 Cal. 3d 144 - People v. Balderas (1985)
11 federal appellate · 145 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 · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · People v. Green · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's possible punishment is not a proper matter for jury consideration.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Green does not require that the trial court engage in an on-the-record evaluation of the factors affecting the weighing process.... To make such a showing it may be sufficient if the court simply recites that its conclusion was the result of a weighing process.”
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.