47 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
144 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 342 - People v. Maury (2003), 49 Cal. 3d 991 - People v. Lang (1989)
144 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 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez · 44 Cal. 3d 713 - People v. Melton · 34 Cal. 3d 858 - People v. Easley · 46 Cal. 3d 919 - People v. Bean · 36 Cal. 3d 36 - People 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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After having heard and received all of the evidence, and after having heard and considered the arguments of counsel, you shall consider, take into account and be guided by the aggravating and mitigating circumstances upon which you have been instructed. [¶] If you conclude that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances you shall impose a sentence of death. However, if you determine that the mitigating circumstances outweigh the aggravating circumstances, you shall impose a sentence of confinement in the state prison for life without the possibility of parole.”
2 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.