6 Cal. 5th 367 - People v. Buenrostro’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2021
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4241
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Faretta v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Dusky v. United States
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before you may return a verdict in this case you must agree unanimously not only as to whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty, but also if you should find him guilty of an unlawful killing, you must agree unanimously as to whether he is guilty of murder of the first degree or murder of the second degree or voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the scenario defendant envisions, a jury's reasonable understanding of the instructions as a whole would result in a hung jury, not a directed verdict for first degree murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“guilty of murder of the first degree or murder of the second degree or voluntary manslaughter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.