14 Cal. 3d 639 - In Re Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979), 5 Cal. 4th 750 - In Re Clark (1993)
3 federal appellate · 204 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Furman v. Georgia · Robinson v. State of California · Trop v. Dulles
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Indeterminate Sentence Law is not now being administered in a manner which offers assurance that persons subject thereto will have their terms fixed at a number of years proportionate to their individual culpability [citation], or, that their terms will be fixed with sufficient promptness to permit any requested review of their proportionality to be accomplished before the affected individuals have been imprisoned beyond the constitutionally permitted term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“involved no violence and caused no physical harm to the victim. The episode lasted only a few minutes. No weapon was involved and petitioner attempted none of the dangerous offenses sometimes associated with violations of section 288.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a term fixed at a number of years that is proportionate to his offense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.