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47 Cal. 2d 566 - People v. Riser’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

476
cited by 476 later decisions
28
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 442 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 476 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 531 - Pitchess v. Superior Court (1974), 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse (1964)

9 federal appellate · 442 state decisions — followed in 28 states

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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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · McNabb v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · Michelson v. United States · Adamson v. People of State of California

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 476 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the state has no interest in denying the accused access to all evidence that can throw light on issues in the case.”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(t “8. If the offense charged be punishable with death, the entertaining of such conscientious opinions as would preclude his finding the defendant guilty; in which case he must neither be permitted nor compelled to serve as a juror.” The quoted language of section 1074 was enacted in 1872 as part of the initial codification of California’s penal laws and has remained intact since then.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “tends to show, not that he committed the crime, but only that he is the sort of person who carries deadly weapons.”
    4 later decisions 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.