People v. Osuna’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 19 Cal. 4th 142 - People v. Breverman (1998)
89 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 Bruton v. United States · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Jackson v. Denno
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unmistakably clear (1) that they would automatically vote against the imposition of capital punishment without regard to any evidence that might be developed at the trial of the case before them; or (2) that their attitude toward the death penalty would prevent them from making an impartial decision as to the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“]; People v. Chacon, supra, 69 Cal.2d 765, 772 [”
1 later decision 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.