22 Cal. 4th 290 - People v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
155 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably People v. Sheena K. (2007), 43 Cal. 4th 36 - People v. French (2008)
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 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott · 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez · 5 Cal. 4th 1203 - People v. Latimer · People v. Panizzon · 14 Cal. 4th 367 - Cowan v. Superior Court
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By agreeing to a specified prison term personally and by counsel, a defendant who is sentenced to that term or a shorter one abandons any claim that a component of the sentence violates section 654's prohibition of double punishment, unless that claim is asserted at the time the agreement is recited on the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“This subdivision is based on the fact that a defendant who, with the advice of counsel, expresses agreement to a specified prison term normally is acknowledging that the term is appropriate for his or her total course of conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.