21 Cal. 4th 86 - People v. Jefferson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
297 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 309 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 40 Cal. 4th 1094 - Murphy v. Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc. (2007), 34 Cal. 4th 1061 - In Re Dannenberg (2005)
297 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 9 Cal. 4th 863 - Chia-Lee Hsu v. Abbara · 53 Cal. 3d 315 - Woods v. Young · 46 Cal. 3d 194 - People v. Hernandez · 9 Cal. 4th 1 - People v. Rayford · 14 Cal. 3d 639 - In Re Rodriguez
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 309 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an additional term of imprisonment added to the base term.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`When the statutory language is ambiguous, the court may examine the context in which the language appears, adopting the construction that best harmonizes the statute internally and with related statutes. ([ Hsu v. Abbara (1995) 9 Cal.4th 863, 871 , [ 39 Cal. Rptr.2d 824 , 891 P.2d 804 ]]; Woods v. Young (1991) 53 Cal.3d 315, 323 , [ 279 Cal. Rptr. 613 , 807 P.2d 455 ][ ].)' ( Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. County of Stanislaus (1997) 16 Cal.4th 1143, 1152 , 69 Cal. Rptr.2d 329 , 947 P.2d 291 [ ].) `”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On July 1, 1977, the Legislature replaced California's indeterminate sentencing scheme with a new law, the Determinate Sentencing Act. Under the new law, most felonies specify three possible terms of imprisonment (the lower, middle, and upper terms); after weighing any aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the trial court selects one of these terms. (§ 1170, subd. (b).)”
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.