10 Cal. 3d 314 - In Re Birch’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 857 - In Re Yurko (1974), 44 Cal. 3d 543 - People v. Hovey (1988)
172 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Kercheval v. United States · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl · People v. Daniels · In Re Johnson · 66 Cal. 2d 606 - In Re Smiley
Most-quoted passages
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“[I]n view of the unusual and onerous nature of the sex registration requirement that follows inexorably from a conviction ... the trial court’s duty surely included an obligation to advise petitioner of this sanction prior to accepting his guilty plea. [[Image here]] While petitioner possibly might have suspected that a guilty plea could result in a short jail sentence, we cannot believe that he was aware that as a consequence of urinating in a parking lot at 1:30 in the morning he would be required to register as a sex offender. Certainly counsel would have advised him of this grave and direct consequence of his guilty plea; in the absence of counsel the responsibility for such advice rested with the court. Without this advice, we conclude that petitioner’s waiver of counsel and plea of guilty cannot be regarded as having been knowingly and intelligently made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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