10 Cal. 3d 910 - In Re Foss’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 315 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Solem v. Helm (1983), Engle v. Isaac (1982)
17 federal appellate · 280 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 Powell v. Texas · 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · 6 Cal. 3d 628 - People v. Anderson · 3 Cal. 3d 89 - People v. Tenorio · 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke
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 315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“allowed for consideration of the rehabilitative progress made by the offender after a reasonable period of incarceration and did not, therefore, constitute a penalty so disproportionate to the offense as to be in violation of the mandate of article I, section 6 of [the California] Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Malloy“The hard-drug pusher is a cold and cynical destroyer of lives as much as any killer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Malloy“more severe than that imposed by the vast majority of the states of the Union.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Malloy
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.