Luu v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably State v. Calderon (2000), Key v. People (1994)
39 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 Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Illinois v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Rose v. Clark
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [federal] constitutional right to presence is rooted to a large extent in the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, but ... [that] right is protected by the Due Process Clause in some situations where the defendant is not actually confronting witnesses or evidence against him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Janis · Zoll v. People“to be present in his own person whenever his presence has a relation, reasonably substantial, to the fullness of his opportunity to defend against the charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cardenas · Zoll v. People“Due process only 'requires that a defendant be allowed to be present to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted by his absence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Mumford · Zoll v. People
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.