54 Cal. 3d 411 - People v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 246 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 267 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 18 Cal. 4th 297 - People v. Bolin (1998), 1 Cal. 4th 495 - People v. Kelly (1992)
13 federal appellate · 246 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 Furman v. Georgia · McCleskey v. Kemp · Godfrey v. Georgia · 48 Cal. 3d 527 - People v. Morales · 31 Cal. 2d 92 - People v. Tuthill
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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he defendant intentionally killed the victim while lying in wait.”
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.