11 Cal. 3d 542 - In Re Kapperman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
281 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 281 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 26 Cal. 3d 498 - People v. Sage (1980), 22 Cal. 3d 584 - Hawkins v. Superior Court (1978)
281 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 Stovall v. Denno · Tate v. Short · Halliday v. United States · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl · McGinnis v. Royster
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 281 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`assur[ing] that penal laws will maintain their desired deterrent effect by carrying out the original prescribed punishment as written.'”
10 later decisions 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.