21 Cal. 4th 335 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 849 - People v. Smith (2001), People v. Sheena K. (2007)
155 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 Strickland v. Washington · 23 Cal. 3d 412 - People v. Pope · 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott · People v. Hill · 8 Cal. 4th 666 - Crowley v. Katleman
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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We now conclude that when the charging document indicates on its face that the action is time-barred, a person convicted of a charged offense may raise the statute of limitations at any time. If the court cannot determine from the available record whether the action is barred, it should hold a hearing or, if it is an appellate court, it should remand for a hearing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Meza · State v. Kerby“`[W]here the pleading of the state shows that the period of the statute of limitations has run, and nothing is alleged to take the case out of the statute . . . the power to proceed in the case is gone.' [Citation.] [This rule] does not apply to an information that, as it should, either shows that the offense was committed within the time period or contains tolling allegations. Although, under our cases, defendants may not forfeit the statute of limitations if it has expired as a matter of law, they may certainly lose the ability to litigate factual issues such as questions of tolling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Defendants would usually gain indirectly by claiming ineffective assistance of counsel what a forfeiture rule would prevent them from gaining directly. A forfeiture rule would merely add a step to the litigation. Only those who admitted their guilt right away and did not request an attorney could never gain relief.”
2 later decisions 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.