46 Cal. 3d 97 - People v. McLain’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), 1 Cal. 4th 324 - People v. Price (1991)
7 federal appellate · 114 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 · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · McCleskey v. Kemp
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[T]he murder of two persons, even by the same act, constitutes two offenses, for each of which a separate prosecution will lie, and ... a conviction or acquittal in one case does not bar a prosecution in the other.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we cannot conclude that it is reasonably probable an outcome more favorable to defendant would have resulted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the admonition given was sufficient to prevent the harm”
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.