People v. Burnham

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defendant must produce substantial evidence supporting a defense before a trial court is required to issue a sua sponte instruction on the defense
• holding that a defendant must produce substantial evidence supporting a defense before a trial court is required to issue a sua sponte instruction on the defense
• recognizing that a defendant must demonstrate substantial evidence supporting a defense in order to require the trial court to issue a sua sponte instruction on the defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 1988-08-04· cited 134×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 1988-11-28· cited 130×
• People v. Williams
  California Supreme Court· 1992-12-21· cited 129×
• People v. Molano
  California Supreme Court· 2019-06-27· cited 107×
• Tyson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-08-06· cited 52×
• People v. Olivencia
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-10-05· cited 38×
• People v. Linwood
  California Court of Appeal· 2003-01-07· cited 36×
• State v. Stenger
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2010-03-04· cited 28×
• People v. Lemus
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-08-01· cited 28×
• People v. Sullivan
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-11-22· cited 19×
• People v. May
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-08-16· cited 17×
• People v. Castillo
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-06-30· cited 16×
• People v. Fields
  California Court of Appeal· 1998-02-27· cited 16×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Court of Appeal· 2009-12-17· cited 15×
• People v. Rhoades
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-07-31· cited 13×
• People v. Simmons
  California Court of Appeal· 1989-08-28· cited 13×
• People v. Steele
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-12-15· cited 9×
• People v. Perez
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-08-26· cited 3×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• People v. Watson
  California Supreme Court· 1956-07-03· cited 7,961×
• Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1962-03-22· cited 2,916×
• People v. Green
  California Supreme Court· 1980-04-24· cited 1,166×
• People v. Sedeno
  California Supreme Court· 1974-02-04· cited 776×
• People v. Flannel
  California Supreme Court· 1979-11-13· cited 712×
• Connecticut v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 606×
• People v. Wickersham
  California Supreme Court· 1982-09-02· cited 493×
• People v. Duran
  California Supreme Court· 1976-02-27· cited 373×
• People v. Thornton
  California Supreme Court· 1974-06-21· cited 372×
• People v. Murtishaw
  California Supreme Court· 1981-07-27· cited 363×
• People v. Carmen
  California Supreme Court· 1951-03-01· cited 319×
• People v. St. Martin
  California Supreme Court· 1970-01-14· cited 315×
• People v. Mayberry
  California Supreme Court· 1975-09-05· cited 313×
• People v. Garcia
  California Supreme Court· 1984-08-06· cited 262×
• People v. Ramos
  California Supreme Court· 1984-11-01· cited 256×
• People v. Tassell
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-20· cited 237×
• People v. Modesto
  California Supreme Court· 1963-06-04· cited 223×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 1964-07-09· cited 220×
• People v. Cantrell
  California Supreme Court· 1973-01-17· cited 170×

Other cases named People v. Burnham

10 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Burnham
  California Court of Appeal· 1961-08-17· cited 6×
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1907-06-28· cited 1×
• People v. Burnham
  New York Court of Appeals· 1969-01-08· cited 1×
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1968-07-01· cited 1×
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-07-06
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1897-07-01
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1897-12-07
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2015-11-13
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2015-11-13
• People v. Burnham
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2022-06-23