People v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 52 Cal. 4th 856 - People v. Clark (2011), 50 Cal. 4th 99 - People v. Letner and Tobin (2010)
126 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Witt · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Arizona v. Youngblood
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have consistently held that the phrase `life without possibility of parole' as it appears in CALJIC No. 8.84 adequately informs the jury that a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole is ineligible for parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A prosecutor's discretion to select those eligible cases in which the death penalty is sought does not offend the federal or state Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““California’s death penalty law adequately narrows the class of murderers eligible for the death penalty. [Citation.] “Factor (a) of section 190.3, which permits the jury to consider the ‘circumstances of the crime’ in determining whether to impose the death penalty, is not unconstitutionally arbitrary or capricious. [Citations.] “Neither the federal nor the state Constitution, nor any recent decision of the United States Supreme Court, requires that a jury find beyond a reasonable doubt that death is the appropriate punishment, or that it must unanimously agree on the presence of a particular aggravating factor, and none of them prohibits a jury from imposing the death penalty unless it finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the circumstances in aggravation outweigh those in mitigation. Nor does the federal or state Constitution require the trial court to so instruct the jury. [Citations.]””
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.