14 Cal. 3d 629 - In Re Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez (1979), 17 Cal. 3d 8 - People v. Bradford (1976)
20 federal appellate · 140 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 Neal v. State of California · 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon · People v. Francis · 1 Cal. 3d 368 - People v. Bauer · 65 Cal. 2d 650 - In re Wright
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `act' necessary to invoke section 654 need not be an act in the ordinary sense that it is a separate, identifiable, physical incident, but may be `a course of conduct which violates more than one statute and comprises an indivisible transaction punishable under more than one statute within the meaning of section 654. The divisibility of a course of conduct depends upon the intent and objective of the actor, and if all the offenses are incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of them but not for more than one.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he appropriate procedure for remedying a section 654 violation is to stay execution of the sentence imposed for the lesser offense, such stay to become permanent when service of sentence for the greater offense is completed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Burns“the appropriate procedure at the appellate level [in remedying section 654 error] is to eliminate the effect of the judgment as to the less severely punishable offense insofar as penalty alone is concerned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Burns
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.