57 Cal. 2d 135 - People v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2010 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado (1965), McGautha v. California (1971)
4 federal appellate · 151 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 Frisbie v. Collins · Rogers v. Richmond · Spano v. People of the State of New York · Ker v. People of the State of Illinois · Newhall v. Le Breton
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . there being no provision in the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States which guarantees him (the defendant) any protection in such transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“inadmissible and in violation of the due process clause of the federal Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“concluded that his discussion of the deterrent effect of the death penalty was only a minor part of his appeal to the jury for that penalty.”
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.