People v. Javier A.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(a) In any case in which a minor is alleged to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the violation, when he or she was 16 years of age or older, of any criminal statute or ordinance except those listed in subdivision (b), upon motion of the petitioner made prior to the attachment of jeopardy the court shall cause the probation officer to investigate and submit a report on the behavioral patterns and social history of the minor being considered for a determination of unfitness. Following submission and consideration of the report, and of any other relevant evidence which the petitioner or the minor may wish to submit, the juvenile court may find that the minor is not a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law if it concludes that the minor would not be amenable to the care, treatment, and training program available through the facilities of the juvenile court, based upon an evaluation of the following criteria: HD (1) The degree of criminal sophistication exhibited by the minor. HO (2) Whether the minor can be rehabilitated prior to the expiration of the juvenile court’s jurisdiction. HD (3) The minor’s previous delinquent history. HO (4) Success of previous attempts by the juvenile court to rehabilitate the minor. HQ (5) The circumstances and gravity of the offense alleged in the petition to have been committed by the minor. “A determination that the minor is not a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law ma”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 Cal. App. 4th 516 - People v. Cardona

2. ““[Trial] by jury ever has been, and I trust ever will be, looked upon as the glory of the English law. And if it has so great an advantage over others in regulating civil property, how much must that advantage be heightened, when it is applied to criminal cases! ... [It] is the most transcendent privilege which any subject can enjoy, or wish for, that he cannot be affected either in his property, his liberty, or his person, but by unanimous consent of twelve of his neighbors.... A [right] that I may venture to affirm has, under Providence, secured the just liberties of this nation for a long succession of ages.... “It is, therefore, upon the whole, a duty which every man owes to his country, his friends, his posterity and himself, ... to guard with the most jealous circumspection against the introduction of new and arbitrary methods of trial, which, under a variety of plausible pretences, may in time imperceptibly undermine this best preservative of English liberty.” 68”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 110 Cal. App. 4th 1072 - People v. Smith

3. “[d]espite the parens patriae relationship between the English government and its minor citizens, those same minors enjoyed an unequivocal right to jury trial when accused of crime in the law courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re LM