People v. Renander’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2021
15 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 United States v. Esch · People v. Zapotocky · Woellhaf v. People · State v. Multaler · Quintano v. People
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s a general matter, the power to initiate, alter, or dismiss charges rests solely within the prosecuting attorney's discretion, and may not be controlled or limited by judicial intervention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. KAILEY v. Chambers“the manner in which a criminal statute permits a defendant's conduct to be divided into discrete acts for purposes of prosecuting multiple offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Herron“The scope of this discretion extends to the power to investigate and to determine who shall be prosecuted and what crimes shall be charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. KAILEY v. Chambers
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.