75 Cal. Rptr. 2d 878 - In Re Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 25 Cal. 4th 230 - In Re Resendiz (2001), 41 Cal. 4th 977 - In Re Hardy (2007)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 · 43 Cal. 3d 171 - People v. Ledesma · 51 Cal. 3d 1179 - People v. Gonzalez · 9 Cal. 4th 464 - People v. Duvall · 54 Cal. 3d 932 - People v. Ashmus
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Deference to the referee is called for on factual questions, especially those requiring resolution of testimonial conflicts and assessment of witnesses' credibility, as the referee has the opportunity to observe the witnesses' demeanor and manner of testifying.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We rejected, however, the suggestion that this standard imposes `either the hypertechnical requirement that each bit of prosecutorial evidence be specifically refuted, or the virtually impossible burden of proving there is no conceivable basis on which the prosecution might have succeeded. It would be unconscionable to deny relief if a petitioner conclusively established his innocence without directly refuting every minute item of the prosecution's proof, or if a petitioner utterly destroyed the theory on which the People relied without rebutting all other possible scenarios which, if they had been presented at trial, might have tended to support a verdict of guilt.' [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`truth, accuracy, and fairness of the conviction and sentence.'”
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.