14 Cal. 3d 169 - People v. Wingo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 260 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 286 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 25 Cal. 3d 142 - People v. Frierson (1979), 34 Cal. 4th 1061 - In Re Dannenberg (2005)
11 federal appellate · 260 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 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch · 11 Cal. 3d 258 - In Re Sturm · In Re Schoengarth
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 286 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“traditionally `[o]ne who is legally convicted has no vested right to the determination of his sentence at less than maximum' [citation]. Moreover, `a defendant under an indeterminate sentence has no”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may determine and redetermine, after the actual commencement of imprisonment, what length of time, if any, such person shall be imprisoned”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Indeterminate Sentence Law has operated in a constitutional fashion since its inception.”
1 later decision 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.