People v. Czajkowski’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Petitioner/Cross-Respondent v. Wayne Robert STEWART, Respondent/Cross-Petitioner. (2002), People v. Marcy (1981)
79 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 Blockburger v. United States · Joseph Patsone v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · People v. CALVAREST · People v. James · People v. McKenzie
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Simply because an act may violate more than one statutory provision does not invalidate the legislation in question, so long as the legislative classification is not arbitrary or unreasonable, and the differences in the provisions bear a reasonable relationship to the persons included and the public policy to be achieved. [Citations omitted.]” 568 P.2d at 25 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Clark · People v. Marshall“The constitution does not demand symmetry of punishment where valid classifications, based on varieties of evils, exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Goodale
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.