38 Cal. 3d 711 - People v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price (1991), 16 Cal. 4th 153 - People v. Williams (1997)
3 federal appellate · 144 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Ventresca · Eddings v. Oklahoma · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Andresen v. Maryland
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.
“On an appeal from a judgment imposing the penalty of death, a technical insufficiency in the form of an objection will be disregarded and the entire record will be examined to determine if a miscarriage of justice resulted.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“strangulation ... [is] a manner of killing [that] shows at least a deliberate intent to kill”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“support an inference of premeditation and deliberation”
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.