7 Cal. 4th 988 - People v. Kirkpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 22 Cal. 4th 690 - People v. Waidla (2000), 25 Cal. 4th 926 - People v. Cunningham (2001)
9 federal appellate · 180 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 Strickland v. Washington · Faretta v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Wainwright v. Witt
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A challenge for cause may be based on the juror's response when informed of facts or circumstances likely to be present in the case being tried.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As we have repeatedly explained, an attorney representing a defendant at the penalty phase of a capital case is not required to present potentially mitigating evidence over the defendant's objections.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hat [are] the legal definitions for aggravating and mitigating circumstances as they apply to the instructions in making the determination of this sentence?”
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.