People v. Discala’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
4 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he net effect of submitting the lesser charge may be that the jury will simply extend mercy, but this is acknowledged to be an 'inevitable consequence of the jury system'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Almonte“[i]n determining whether such a reasonable view exists, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to [the] defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Almonte“appraisal of the persuasiveness of the evidence indicating guilt of the higher count is irrelevant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Almonte
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.