Gonzalez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 28 Cal. 4th 1007 - People v. Storm (2002), Richard Earl McFadden Sr. v. D.A. Garraghty, Warden (1987)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Blockburger v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Tibbs v. Florida · Oregon v. Bradshaw
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enables the trial judge to weigh the evidence and to determine the credibility of witnesses so as to act, in effect, as an additional juror.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An exception to the general rule which permits inconsistent verdicts is recognized where an acquittal of the underlying felony effectively holds the defendant innocent of a greater offense involving that same felony. The classic legal inconsistency would be presented here if the defendant had been acquitted of trafficking in narcotics (as charged in Count 5) while being found guilty as to the third-degree murder while trafficking in narcotics. Logical inconsistencies, as distinguished from legal inconsistencies, are acceptable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as a jury's exercise of its power of lenity”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grey
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.