People v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
23 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 36 Cal. 3d 77 - People v. Tassell · 32 Cal. 3d 338 - People v. McCart · 152 Cal. App. 3d 900 - People v. Reeder · 157 Cal. App. 3d 797 - People v. Jacobs · 117 Cal. App. 3d 309 - In Re Sims
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Legislature wanted in-prison crimes to be punished more severely than crimes committed 'on the outside.' " ( Ibid . ) It would be inconsistent with the legislative purpose of these statutes to construe section 1170.1(c) to preclude the application of section 4500 to inmates who have not yet begun serving an imposed and pending life sentence because they are still serving a determinate sentence. Finally, defendant contends that because his Three Strikes conviction could have been overturned on appeal before he began to serve it, he was not a person undergoing a life sentence when he assaulted Addis. Of course, any life sentence consecutive to a determinate sentence could potentially be modified by commutation, pardon, a statutory change, an ultimately successful appeal or habeas corpus petition, or even avoided by the death of the inmate during the determinant term. Such speculative outcomes do not undermine the core reasoning of McNabb and Bell that the phrase "undergoing a life sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case of any person convicted of one or more felonies committed while the person is confined in a state prison or is subject to reimprisonment for escape from custody and the law either requires the terms to be served consecutively or the court imposes consecutive terms, the term of imprisonment for all the convictions that the person is required to serve consecutively shall commence from the time the person would otherwise have been released from prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 1170.1(c) applies to felonies committed when the defendant is confined in a state prison. The statutory scheme makes clear that such felonies, i.e., those felonies committed in prison, are exempt from the general sentencing scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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