Pensinger v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
6 federal appellate · 3 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 Clemons v. Mississippi · Wellman v. Wellman · 52 Cal. 3d 1210 - People v. Pensinger
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`especially heinous' instruction did not change the mix of evidence presented to the jury in [Clemons]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. Sanders“requires its juries to weigh aggravating and mitigating circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that fact alone did not support a finding of harmlessness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Brown v. Sanders
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.