45 Cal. 3d 829 - People v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 1132 - People v. Howard (1992), 3 Cal. 4th 195 - People v. Pride (1992)
7 federal appellate · 116 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 Faretta v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a matter of law, evidence explaining how capital punishment is carried out is not relevant to any issue material to the choice of penalty and as such is inadmissible. [Citations.] Such evidence has `no bearing on the character or record of the individual offender or the circumstances of his particular offense, which are the proper focus of a penalty trial under Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) 428 U.S. 280, 304 [ 49 L.Ed.2d 944, 961 , 96 S.Ct. 2978 ]. A vivid account of an execution has no place at the penalty phase. Unlike mitigating evidence of a defendant's background and character, which may be introduced to elicit the sympathy or pity of the jury, accounts of the executions of others do not aid the jury in making an individualized assessment of the crucial issue whether the death penalty is appropriate for the particular defendant on trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“other criminal activity by the defendant which involved the use or attempted use of force or violence or which involved the express or implied threat to use force or violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one]; People v. Allen (1986) 42 Cal.3d 1222, 1279 [ 232 Cal. Rptr. 849 , 729 P.2d 115 ] [prosecutor argued:”
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.