People v. Avila’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably People v. Hogan (2004), People v. Villa (2009)
25 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 Kogan v. People · People v. Sepeda · People v. Gutierrez · Hock v. New York Life Insurance Co. · Armintrout v. People
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“flagrantly, glaringly, or tremendously improper”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain error occurs only when an error so undermines the fundamental fairness of the trial itself as to cast serious doubt on the reliability of the jury's verdict.... Only prosecutorial misconduct which is 'flagrantly, glaringly, or tremendously improper' warrants reversal.”
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.