People v. Berryman’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
132 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 171 - People v. Ledesma (1987), 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green (1980)
132 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 People v. Fleming · People v. MacDonald · People v. Lewis · People v. Oxnam · People v. Derwae
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor does the case fall within another exception as stated in People v. Berryman, 6 Cal.2d 331, 337 [ 57 P.2d 136 ]: `... where the case is closely balanced and there is grave doubt of defendant's guilt, and the acts of misconduct are such as to contribute materially to the verdict, a miscarriage of justice results requiring a reversal. ( People v. Fleming, 166 Cal. 357 ....)'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“this whole county, this whole state is watching what you do today upon this case.”
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.