48 Cal. 3d 1194 - People v. Bloom’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 390 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Washington v. Harper (1990), 54 Cal. 3d 787 - People v. Edwards (1991)
12 federal appellate · 390 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 · Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Lockhart v. McCree
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he required reliability is attained when the prosecution has discharged its burden of proof at the guilt and penalty phases pursuant to the rules of evidence and within the guidelines of a constitutional death penalty statute, the death verdict has been returned under proper instructions and procedures, and the trier of penalty has duly considered the relevant mitigating evidence, if any, which the defendant has chosen to present. A judgment of death entered in conformity with these rigorous standards does not violate the Eighth Amendment reliability requirements.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The test of a valid waiver of counsel is not whether specific warnings or advisements were given but whether the record as a whole demonstrates that the defendant understood the disadvantages of self-representation, including the risks and complexities of the particular case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] self-represented defendant must show that [standby] counsel failed to perform competently within the limited scope of the duties assigned to or assumed by counsel.”
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.