39 Cal. 4th 398 - People v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 43 Cal. 4th 415 - People v. Lewis (2008), 41 Cal. 4th 555 - People v. Geier (2007)
131 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Holloway v. Arkansas
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deny such a motion if discharge will result in `significant prejudice' to the defendant [citation], or if it is not timely, i.e., if it will result in `disruption of the orderly processes of justice' [citations].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Refusal to sever may be an abuse of discretion where: (1) evidence on the crimes to be jointly tried would not be cross-admissible in separate trials; (2) certain of the charges are unusually likely to inflame the jury against the defendant; (3) a “weak” case has been joined with a “strong” case, or with another “weak” case, so that the “spillover” effect of aggregate evidence on several charges might well alter the outcome of some or all of the charges; and (4) any one of the charges carries the death penalty or joinder of them turns the matter into a capital case.’ ” (People v. Bradford (1997) 15 Cal.4th 1229, 1315 [ 65 Cal.Rptr.2d 145 , 939 P.2d 259 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We observed in Maxwell v. Superior Court [, supra ,] 30 Cal.3d [at p. 615, 180 Cal.Rptr. 177 , 639 P.2d 248 ,] ... '[d]efendant's confidence in his lawyer is vital to his defense. His right to decide for himself who best can conduct the case must be respected wherever feasible.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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