People v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 25 Cal. 4th 441 - People v. Williams (2001), 149 Cal. App. 4th 214 - People v. Albarran (2007)
25 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 Strickland v. Washington · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · Victor v. Nebraska · Williams v. Florida
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t cannot seriously be argued that, when asked by the jurors, a trial judge must advise them: `I have instructed you on the law applicable to this case. Follow it or ignore it, as you choose.' Such advice may achieve pragmatic justice in isolated instances, but we suggest the more likely result is anarchy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Gang evidence should not be admitted at trial where its sole relevance is to show a defendant's criminal disposition or bad character as a means of creating an inference the defendant committed the charged offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Trujillo“`must find appellant guilty of first degree murder and could not nullify what it considered to be an unjust law ...' and threatening to remove any juror who could not follow the law.”
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.