39 Cal. 4th 913 - People v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 41 Cal. 4th 472 - People v. Abilez (2007), 52 Cal. 4th 856 - People v. Clark (2011)
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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Faretta v. California · Brewer v. Williams · Godinez v. Moran
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tactical errors are generally not deemed reversible, and counsel's decision making must be evaluated in the context of the available facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“courts should not second-guess reasonable, if difficult, tactical decisions in the harsh light of hindsight [citation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e accord great deference to counsel's tactical decisions”
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.