53 Cal. 3d 522 - People v. Wharton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 415 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 445 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 83 - People v. Crittenden (1994), 16 Cal. 4th 153 - People v. Williams (1997)
14 federal appellate · 415 state decisions — followed in 11 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Boykin v. Alabama · Griswold v. State of Connecticut
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 445 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] psychotherapist's Tarasoff warning to the patient's intended victim is not covered by the privi lege even if it relates an otherwise protected communication, provided that the conditions of the exception are satisfied, viz, there is reasonable cause for the psychotherapist to believe that (1) the patient is dangerous and (2) disclosure of the communication is necessary to prevent any harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“involving planning and deliberate action, is manifestly inconsistent with having acted under the heat of passion ... and clearly demonstrate[d] that defendant was not prejudiced by the failure to give his requested instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the basis of a defendant's dissatisfaction with counsel is set forth in a letter of sufficient detail, however, a full-blown hearing is not required”
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.