21 Cal. 3d 562 - People v. Caudillo’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 390 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 418 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes (1986), 24 Cal. 3d 514 - People v. Tanner (1979)
18 federal appellate · 390 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 People v. Daniels · 11 Cal. 3d 738 - People v. Thornton · People v. Redmond · 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County · 14 Cal. 3d 864 - People v. Rincon-Pineda
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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recently, the Legislature addressed itself to the problem of defining what constitutes “great bodily injury.” * * * [Sjection 12022.7 was added to the Penal Code. Section 12022.7 supplants the specific great-bodily-injury provisions of Penal Code sections 213, 264 and 461 with their great-bodily-injury enhancement provisions, and is made applicable to all felonies which do not necessarily involve such injury. Under the statutory scheme of section 12022.7, as originally enacted in 1976, the level of injury necessary to trigger the additional penalty of three years in prison was spelled out in some detail: “As used in this section, ‘great bodily injury’ means a serious impairment of physical condition, which includes any of the following: (a) Prolonged loss of consciousness, (b) Severe concussion, (c) Protracted loss of any bodily member or organ, (d) Protracted impairment of function of any bodily member or organ or bone, (e) A wound or wounds requiring extensive suturing. (f) Serious disfigurement, (g) Severe physical pain inflicted by torture.” * * * Penal Code section 12022.7 was amended in 1977 to strike out the detailed definition of “great bodily injury” and substitute the following definition: “As used in this section, great bodily injury means a significant or substantial physical injury.” Thus it may be seen that the Legislature, while changing its mind with respect to a detailed definition of “great bodily injury” before that definition became effective, has now adop”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As used in this section, great bodily injury means a significant or substantial physical injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he 1977 amendment to Penal Code section 12022.7 was not intended to lessen the magnitude of bodily injury required by the 1976 detailed definition of great bodily injury. Rather, it appears that the 1977 amendment to Penal Code section 12022.7 was designed to preclude the possibility that the 1976 detailed definition of great bodily injury be construed as all inclusive, leaving no latitude to the trier of fact to find a bodily injury of equal magnitude to the categories specified in the detailed definition but not coming literally within any category set forth therein.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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