Wright v. Superior Court’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 197 state decisions

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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “marked by a continuing duty in the defendant to do an act which he fails to do. The offense continues as long as the duty persists and there is a failure to perform that duty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 123 Cal. App. 4th 695 - People v. Meeks · State v. Green

2. “If any person who is required to register pursuant to this section changes his or her residence address or location, whether within the jurisdiction in which he or she is currently registered or to a new jurisdiction inside or outside the state, the person shall inform, in writing within five working days, the law enforcement agency or agencies with which he or she last registered of the new address or location.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 20 Cal. 4th 249 - People v. Franklin

3. “A defendant does not commit the crime only at the particular moment the obligation arises, but every day it remains unsatisfied. Given the persistent and palpable threat to society sex offenders represent, "the nature of the crime involved is such that [the Legislature] must assuredly have intended that it be treated as a continuing one."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Lopez