9 Cal. 4th 953 - People v. Beeler’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably People v. Arias (1996), People v. Holt (1997)
7 federal appellate · 138 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Agurs · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court's discretion in deciding whether to discharge a juror encompasses the discretion to decide what specific procedures to employ including whether to conduct a hearing or detailed inquiry”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“THE COURT: Juror Coley called in this morning, indicated there was a death in his family. Other than that, no other formal message other than he expected to fly out of state at two o’clock in the afternoon today. I asked the clerk to get hold of him and find out the particulars of it. Court called both counsel. Neither have honored their 20-minute call. They’ve gone to Westminster Court. The court has been able to contact one of the parties, I believe, and they were beyond an hour limit. The court is going to cause the jury to begin deliberations again. I’m simply making a record of the information I’ve received from this juror, and that is that the family member that is deceased is his father, they have a close relationship, he needs to be there, and he will be back—Monday? JUROR COLEY: Monday. THE COURT: The court’s going to cause the jury to begin deliberations again and we’ll recess early for the convenience of this juror, sometime before noon. And after I speak to the attorneys, the probability is that I will not excuse this juror and will not place an alternate in his seat and will expect that we will begin deliberations again on Monday. So even if the attorneys do not show, that is the information that Mr. Coley will have and he will be required to come back on Monday, unless there’s some other severe family problem that you notify us of by phone. Okay? JUROR COLEY: Okay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“possess an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed, and be of such a nature that the defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means.”
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.