46 Cal. 3d 123 - People v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably 47 Cal. 3d 1194 - People v. Johnson (1989), 8 Cal. 4th 137 - People v. Turner (1994)
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 Chapman v. State of California · Lockett v. Ohio · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Enmund v. Florida · Pulley v. Harris
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he showing must be especially persuasive when the defendant seeks to recuse an entire prosecutorial office and not simply a particular prosecutor. (Citation.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“intent to kill is not an element of the felony-murder special circumstance; but when the defendant is an aider and abettor rather than the actual killer, intent must be proved.”
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.