People v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 668 - People v. Flannel (1979), 50 Cal. 3d 1158 - People v. Ramirez (1990)
28 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 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno · 6 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Beagle · 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood · 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse · 64 Cal. 2d 310 - People v. Conley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, if you find that as a result of mental illness, mental defect, or intoxication, his mental capacity was diminished to the extent that he neither harbored malice aforethought nor had an intent to kill at the time the alleged crime was committed, you cannot find him guilty of either murder or voluntary manslaughter.”
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.