People v. Rankin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2007
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 54 Cal. 3d 612 - People v. Mickey · 49 Cal. 3d 291 - People v. Carrera · 159 Cal. App. 3d 156 - People v. Louis
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“made a willfully false or deliberately misleading statement concerning the crimes for which he is now being tried, you may consider that statement as a circumstance tending to prove consciousness of guilt. However, that statement is not sufficient by itself to prove guilt, and its weight and significance, if any, are for you to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should never be given unless it can be inferred that the defendant made the false statement for the purpose of deflecting suspicion from himself, as opposed to protecting someone else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the giving of CALJIC No. 2.03 is justified when there is evidence a defendant fabricated a story to explain his conduct”
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.