9 Cal. 4th 464 - People v. Duvall’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 205 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 376 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Cullen v. Pinholster (2011), Cullen v. Pinholster (2011)
63 federal appellate · 205 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 · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope · 5 Cal. 4th 750 - In Re Clark · 44 Cal. 3d 57 - People v. Miranda · 51 Cal. 3d 1179 - People v. Gonzalez
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 376 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because a petition for a writ of habeas corpus seeks to collaterally attack a presumptively final criminal judgment, the petitioner bears a heavy burden initially to plead sufficient grounds for relief, and then later to prove them.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“state fully and with particularity the facts on which relief is sought” and”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[W]here there are no disputed factual questions as to matters outside the trial record, the merits of a habeas corpus petition can be decided without an evidentiary hearing.' [Citations.] Thus, '[w]hen the return effectively admits the material factual allegations of the petition and traverse by not disputing them, we may resolve the issue without ordering an evidentiary hearing.' [Citation.]”
2 later decisions 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.