69 Cal. 2d 613 - In Re Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 321 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), McGautha v. California (1971)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 273 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Swain v. State of Alabama · United States v. Jackson · Smith v. Crouse · Pauling v. McElroy
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 321 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment without regard to any evidence that might be developed at the trial of the case before [him]. ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a judge I am bound to the law as I find it to be and not as I might fervently wish it to be.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is obvious that Witherspoon made a material change in the law in this state. Since petitioners were tried before Witherspoon , failure to object to the exclusion of the prospective jurors in question does not bar petitioners from now claiming error.”
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.