State v. Dibello’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Hamilton (2003), State v. Hummel (2017)
73 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 46 Cal. 3d 612 - People v. Karis · State v. Bishop · State v. Knight · State v. Lafferty · State v. Verde
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if, upon reviewing the evidence and all inferences that can be reasonably drawn from it, we conclude that some evidence exists from which a reasonable jury could find that the elements of the crime had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Counsel for both sides have considerable latitude in their closing arguments. They have the right to fully discuss from their perspectives the evidence and all inferences and deductions it supports.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alonzo · State v. Olola“[C]ounsel exceeds the bounds of this discretion and commits error if. he or she calls to the jury’s attention material that the jury would not be justified in considering in reaching its verdict. Such conduct warrants reversal if the appellate court concludes that absent the improper argument, there was a reasonable likelihood of an outcome more favorable to the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Alonzo
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.