People v. Vela’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2022
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · Miller v. Alabama · Miller v. Alabama · Graham v. Florida · 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Specifically, the Vela court ordered as follows: 'Here, under these circumstances, [the defendant]'s conviction and sentence are conditionally reversed and we order the juvenile court to conduct a juvenile transfer hearing. ( [Welf. & Inst. Code,] § 707.) When conducting the transfer hearing, the juvenile court shall, to the extent possible, treat the matter as though the prosecutor had originally filed a juvenile petition in juvenile court and had then moved to transfer [the defendant]'s cause to a court of criminal jurisdiction. ( [Welf. & Inst. Code,] § 707, subd. (a)(1).) If, after conducting the juvenile transfer hearing, the court determines that it would have transferred [the defendant] to a court of criminal jurisdiction because he is "not a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“sea change in penology regarding the relative culpability and rehabilitation possibilities for juvenile offenders”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Pineda · People v. Brewer“'[w]hen the Legislature amends a statute so as to lessen the punishment [,] it has obviously expressly determined that its former penalty was too severe and that a lighter punishment is proper as punishment for the commission of the prohibited act. It is an inevitable inference that the Legislature must have intended that the new statute imposing the new lighter penalty now deemed to be sufficient should apply to every case to which it constitutionally could apply.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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