People v. Mena’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 state decisions

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

1. “‘“[In Wardius], the United States Supreme Court held that an Oregon statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause in requiring a defendant to provide alibi information before trial without imposing a reciprocal discovery obligation on the state. ( Wardius, [supra, 412 U.S.] at pp. 474-476.) The Supreme Court stated that ‘[although the Due Process Clause has little to say regarding the amount of discovery which the parties must be afforded, [citation], it does speak to the balance of forces between the accused and his accuser.’ (Id. at p. 474.) The high court further noted that although due process did not require Oregon to adopt any pretrial discovery provisions, if it did, ‘discovery must be a two-way street.’ {Id. at p. 475.) “ Wardius, supra, 412 U.S. 470 , requires only that certain discovery obligations be reciprocal. (People v. Yeoman (2003) 31 Cal.4th 93, 154 [ 2 Cal.Rptr.3d 186 , 72 P.3d 1166 ].)” (People v. Mena (2012) 54 Cal.4th 146, 159 [ 141 Cal.Rptr.3d 469 , 277 P.3d 160 ].)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Shorts

2. “'must necessarily be based upon reasonable probabilities rather than upon mere possibilities'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Cal. 5th 186 - People v. Gonzalez

3. “'[t]here is no general constitutional right to discovery in a criminal case.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 223 Cal. Rptr. 3d 660 - Facebook, Inc. v. Superior Court of San Diego Cnty.