Pendleton Et Al. v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably North v. Russell (1976), Splawn v. California (1977)
3 district · 10 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 Miller v. California · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · Heller v. New York · Jenkins v. Georgia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unconstitutionally overbroad, and therefore invalid on its face.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Splawn v. California
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.