People v. Sánchez’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
32 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Lockett v. Ohio · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“California's death penalty law does not violate equal protection by treating capital and noncapital defendants differently.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Penal Code sections 190.2 and 190.3 are not impermissibly broad, and factor (a) of Penal Code section 190.3 does not make imposition of the death penalty arbitrary and capricious.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Except for evidence of other crimes and prior convictions, jurors need not find aggravating factors true beyond a reasonable doubt; no instruction on burden of proof is needed; the jury need not achieve unanimity except for the verdict itself; and written findings are not required.'”
2 later decisions 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.