71 Cal. 2d 793 - People v. McClellan’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle (1972), 2 Cal. 3d 205 - People v. Robles (1970)
122 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 United States v. Wade · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wenzler v. Pitchess · 62 Cal. 2d 692 - People v. Hillery
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strong policy against depriving the state's case of its persuasiveness and forcefulness by forcing the prosecutor to accept stipulations that soften the impact of the evidence in its entirety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the probability that its admission will ... create substantial danger of undue prejudice....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant's background and history, and ... any facts in aggravation or mitigation of the penalty.”
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.