4 Cal. 4th 155 - People v. Sandoval’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 267 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Victor v. Nebraska (1994), 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley (1995)
3 federal appellate · 267 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Rose v. Clark · California v. Ramos · 2 Cal. 4th 408 - People v. Mincey · 50 Cal. 3d 1223 - People v. Gordon
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“diminish the jury's sense of responsibility for its verdict and ... imply that another, higher law should be applied in capital cases, displacing the law in the court's instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“You are not playing God. You are doing what God says. This might be the only opportunity to wake him up. God will destroy the body to save the soul. Make him get himself right. . . . Let him have the opportunity to get his soul right. That's the only way to get his attention. You are not playing God. God ordains authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.