46 Cal. 3d 432 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 307 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably 19 Cal. 4th 142 - People v. Breverman (1998), People v. Alvarez (1996)
4 federal appellate · 298 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 Strickland v. Washington · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson
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 307 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not merely to find facts, but also-and most important-to render an individualized, norma tive determination about the penalty appropriate for the particular defendant-i.e., whether he should live or die.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In deciding whether it is `reasonably possible' that a given error or combination of errors affected a verdict, we will `exclude the possibility of arbitrariness, whimsy, caprice, "nullification,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he circumstances of the crime of which the defendant was convicted in the present proceeding ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.