42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 559 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 597 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably 10 Cal. 4th 764 - People v. Stanley (1995), Wong v. Belmontes (2009)
27 federal appellate · 559 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 Davis v. Alaska · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Zant v. Stephens
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 597 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ruling on the application, the judge shall review the evidence, consider, take into account, and be guided by the aggravating and mitigating circumstances referred to in Section 190.3, and shall make a determination as to whether the jury's findings and verdicts that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances are contrary to law or the evidence presented. The judge shall state on the record the reasons for his findings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a factor over which one can exercise no control”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a more balanced picture of his personality.”
4 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.