People v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Menna v. New York · Washington v. Recuenco
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law of this jurisdiction does not permit the statutory maximum sentence to which a defendant has subjected himself by pleading guilty to be increased by subsequent jury findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Barton“would be error to sentence in the aggravated range without finding any Blakely-compliant or exempt fact to be extraordinarily aggravating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Fiske“the right to appeal issues relating to factual guilt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Barton
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.