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← 5 Cal. 5th 56 - People v. Hardy

5 Cal. 5th 56 - People v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
March 2022
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Crawford v. Washington · Berger v. United States · Wainwright v. Witt · Miller-El v. Dretke

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

  1. “the prosecution never argued that Sigler did not yell a racial slur; indeed, she said during her opening statement that the jury would 'hear testimony or evidence that [Sigler] made some racial remarks, and that [Hardy] and his companions approached her as a result of these.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'to cause extreme pain or suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or another sadistic purpose.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the duty of [the trial court] and counsel to ensure the record is both accurate and adequately developed”
    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.