22 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Arbuckle’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 311 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 319 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 54 Cal. 3d 1013 - People v. Walker (1991), 37 Cal. 3d 136 - People v. Ramos (1984)
4 federal appellate · 311 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.
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 319 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'I have agreed, as has your attorney, Mr. Kenner, that before I could send you to the State Prison, I would have to get that 90-day diagnostic study and I would follow the recommendation.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“entitled to be sentenced by Judge London, or if internal court administrative practices render that impossible, then in the alternative defendant should be permitted to withdraw his plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“I respectfully dissent ... from that portion of * the majority opinion which holds that, as a general principle , whenever a judge accepts a plea bargain one of the implied and enforceable terms of the bargain is that sentence will be imposed by the particular judge who accepts the plea. In my opinion no express promise should be made by a court, the prosecutor, or defense counsel; nor should such a condition in the usual case be routinely implied .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.