People v. Manson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 771 - People v. Cooper (1991), 42 Cal. 3d 730 - People v. Rodriguez (1986)
14 federal appellate · 212 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Bruton v. United States · Harrington v. California · Brown v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Barrett 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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that a case receives enormous publicity does not by itself establish error nor does conceded "massive" publicity automatically translate into prejudice. . . . Exposure to publicity alone does not make it impossible for jurors to perform their obligation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`adversities of publicity are considerably offset if trial is conducted in a populous metropolitan area.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Ronald Hughes became trial counsel for [co-defendant Leslie] Van Houten on July 17, 1970, after commencement of trial and during the jury voir dire but before any jury was sworn or any evidence taken. He continued to actively represent her through the course of trial until Monday, November 30,1970, when he failed to appear in court. By that time respondent and appellants had rested, but the trial court had not ruled on all submitted jury instructions and closing arguments had not commenced. When Hughes could not be located, Maxwell Keith was appointed for Van Houten as co-counsel . . . Hughes never returned to court.” Manson, supra, at 197 , 132 Cal.Rptr. at 323 .”
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.