7 Cal. 3d 562 - People v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
208 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope (1979)
208 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 Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Leland v. Oregon · McGautha v. California · People v. Ibarra · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remarkable care exercised by the trial judge in satisfying himself that defendant fully understood the nature and consequences of his proposed course of action, and that any waiver he might make would be both knowing and intelligent. By a detailed series of questions and explanations, the judge established that defendant had discussed the matter at length with his two attorneys; that he knew he had the right to have the case tried by 12 jurors; that he understood the charges against him and the pleas he had entered; that he realized the same judge would determine the issues of guilt, sanity, and penalty; that he was aware of the punishments which could be imposed in this case, including the possibility of a death penalty; and that no promise of special treatment or leniency had been made to him in exchange for his waiver of a jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“benefited from a detailed examination by the trial court into the nature and consequences of a waiver of jury trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Debatable trial tactics do not constitute a deprivation of the effective assistance of counsel.'”
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.