20 Cal. 3d 678 - People v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 51 Cal. 3d 335 - Lucido v. Superior Court (1990), 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez (1979)
172 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 14 Cal. 3d 338 - People v. Feagley · 18 Cal. 3d 796 - People v. Edwards · 14 Cal. 3d 639 - In Re Rodriguez · 14 Cal. 3d 68 - People v. Giminez · Stephens v. Toomey
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not a capricious or arbitrary discretion, but an impartial discretion, guided and controlled in its exercise by fixed legal principles. It is not a mental discretion, to be exercised ex gratia, but a legal discretion, to be exercised in conformity with the spirit of the law and in a manner to subserve and not to impede or defeat the ends of substantial justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'exceeds the bounds of reason, all of the circumstances before it being considered.'”
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.