47 Cal. 3d 207 - People v. Adcox’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 1 Cal. 4th 1132 - People v. Howard (1992), 52 Cal. 3d 577 - People v. Hayes (1990)
183 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt · 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 186 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`... Shall, not may, not might, not maybe. It is very explicit. ...'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e see no impropriety in a prosecutor urging that the jurors `follow the law' and base their penalty decision on a weighing of the applicable factors, so long as it is understood that inherent in the weighing process itself is the determination of `appropriateness'....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Italics in original.)]; People v. Hendricks (1988) 44 Cal.3d 635, 653-655 [ 244 Cal. Rptr. 181 , 749 P.2d 836 ] [prosecutor emphasized mandatory”
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.