21 Cal. 4th 1122 - People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 26 Cal. 4th 20 - People v. Buckhalter (2001), 27 Cal. 4th 38 - People v. Cooper (2002)
78 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 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · 12 Cal. 4th 145 - People v. Coronado · 26 Cal. 3d 498 - People v. Sage · 9 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Rayford · 5 Cal. 4th 122 - In Re Littlefield
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]iven this limitation of section 667(a) five-year enhancements to recidivists whose current offenses are serious, it is equally appropriate to limit sections 2933.1 and 667.5(c)(7) to defendants whose current offenses, in and of themselves, and without reference to the punishment accorded under the [T]hree [S]trikes law, are violent. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Except as provided in subdidivion (b), Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2930) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 of Part 3 [6] shall apply to reduce any minimum term of 15, 20, or 25 years in the state prison imposed pursuant to this section, but the person shall not otherwise be released on parole prior to that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding Section 4019 or any other provision of law, the maximum credit' that may be earned against a period of confinement in, or commitment to, a county jail ... shall not exceed 15 percent of the actual period of confinement for any person specified in subdivision (a).”
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.