People v. Constant’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Wilson v. People (1987), Harris v. People (1995)
70 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 Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · In re Disbarment of Carnow · United States v. Wright · 64 Cal. 2d 691 - People v. Talbot
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rosecu-torial misconduct in closing arguments rarely, if ever, is so egregious as to constitute plain error.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Rhea · People v. Arzabala“[c]ounsel can with propriety comment on how well and in what manner a witness measures up to the tests of credibility set forth in the instruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'substantial likelihood that it affected the verdict or deprived a defendant of a fair and impartial trial”
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.