People v. Roybal’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably People v. Dunlap (1999), People v. Cagle (1988)
57 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · People Ex Rel. Gallagher v. District Court Ex Rel. County of Arapahoe · Gallegos v. People · Verzuh v. Rouse
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law of the case as established by an appellate court must be followed in subsequent proceedings before the trial court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Moland v. People · People v. Curren“A trial court may reconsider its own suppression order when there is new, probative evidence available and the prosecution shows good cause why that evidence was not introduced previously.... Here, however, the evidence that the prosecution now wishes to adduce was available at the first hearing, but the district attorney made a tactical decision not to present it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tu v. State · People v. Schaufele“'The doctrine of the law of the case is more flexible in its application to reconsideration by the court making the decision, because there the only purpose of the doctrine is efficiency of disposition.”
3 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.