12 Cal. 4th 652 - People v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 182 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) (1996), 14 Cal. 4th 605 - People v. Gardeley (1996)
168 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Gaudin
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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] penalty provision prescribes an added penalty to be imposed when the offense is committed under specified circumstances. A penalty provision is separate from the underlying offense and does not set forth elements of the offense or a greater degree of the offense charged.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“an additional term of imprisonment added to the base term.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The double jeopardy clauses of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, and article I, section 15, of the California Constitution, guarantee that a person shall not be placed twice `in jeopardy' for the `same offense.' The double jeopardy bar protects against a second prosecution for the same offense following an acquittal or conviction, and also protects against multiple punishment for the same offense. [Citations.] Under both federal and California law, greater and lesser included offenses constitute the `same offense' for purposes of double jeopardy.”
2 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.