People v. Wesley’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2007
18 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Sandstrom v. Montana · Rose v. Clark · 1 Cal. 3d 444 - People v. Hood · Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fundamental rule of statutory construction is ascertaining the Legislature's intent so as to effectuate the purpose of the law. ( Select Base Materials v. Board of Equal. (1959) 51 Cal.2d 640, 645 ....) A court first turns to the words of the statute itself, giving significance to every word, phrase, sentence and part of an act in furtherance of the legislative purpose if possible. ( People v. Black (1982) 32 Cal.3d 1 , 5 ....) A construction which renders any part of a statute surplusage should be avoided. ( People v. Gilbert (1969) 1 Cal.3d 475, 480 ....) The statutory language must be construed in context and the various parts of a statute `must be harmonized by considering the particular clause or section in the context of the statutory framework as a whole.' ( People v. Black, supra, p. 5 .) The legislative history as well as the historical circumstances of a statute's enactment may be considered in ascertaining the Legislature's intent.”
1 later decision 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.