53 Cal. 3d 68 - People v. Beardslee’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 290 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 328 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Brown v. Payton (2005), 54 Cal. 3d 787 - People v. Edwards (1991)
21 federal appellate · 290 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Brown v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio
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 328 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the original instructions are themselves full and complete, the court has discretion under section 1138 to determine what additional explanations are sufficient to satisfy the jury's request for information.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“when the jury 'desire[s] to be informed on any point of law arising in the case ... the information required must be given.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“must at least consider how it can best aid the jury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. Payton · People v. Kopp
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.