People v. Hendrix’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 219 - People v. Lawrence (2000), 16 Cal. 4th 547 - People v. Dotson (1997)
104 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 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · People v. Hazelton · 32 Cal. App. 4th 656 - People v. Martin · People v. Cartwright
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "[w]hen statutory language is clear and unambiguous, there is no need for construction and courts should not indulge in it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a defendant has been convicted of a felony and it has been pled and proved that the defendant has one or more prior serious and/or violent felony convictions, as defined in subdivision (b), the court shall adhere to each of the following: [¶] ... [¶] (6) If there is a current conviction for more than one felony count not committed on the same occasion, and not arising from the same set of operative facts, the court shall sentence the defendant consecutively on each count pursuant to this section. [¶] (7) If there is a current conviction for more than one serious or violent felony as described in paragraph (6) of this subdivision , the court shall impose the sentence for each conviction consecutive to the sentence for any other conviction for which the defendant may be consecutively sentenced in the manner prescribed by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not committed on the same occasion, and not arising from the same set of operative facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.