206 Cal. App. 3d 184 - People v. Stringham’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 2 Cal. 4th 924 - In Re Alvernaz (1992), 185 Cal. App. 4th 208 - Mabry v. Superior Court (2010)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Rideau v. Louisiana · Booth v. Maryland · Frank v. Mangum
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Plea bargaining in any case in which the indictment or information charges any serious felony ... is prohibited, unless there is insufficient evidence to prove the people’s case, or testimony of a material witness cannot be obtained, or a reduction or dismissal would not result in a substantial change in sentence. “(c) As used in this section, ‘serious felony’ means any of the following: “. . . (7) any felony punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life; (8) any other felony in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person, other than an accomplice, or any felony in which the defendant personally uses a firearm; (9) attempted murder; . . . (18) burglary of an inhabited dwelling house ....’’ Implicit in this statute is the requirement that the court make a finding on one of the alternative bases for permitting a bargain. Only the third (no substantial change in sentence) could be arrived at by the court without the cooperation of the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We adopt a construction 'that will effectuate the voters' intent, giv[ing] meaning to each word and phrase, and avoid absurd results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Perry“`[j]udicial approval is an essential condition precedent to any plea bargain'”
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.