227 Cal. App. 2d 369 - In Re Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 666 - People v. Chambers (1972), 1 Cal. 3d 168 - In Re Williams (1969)
27 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 43 Cal. 2d 651 - In Re Williamson · In Re McVickers · People v. Swann · People v. Ralph · In Re Seeley
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the indeterminate sentence law and the Youth Authority Act should be construed and applied to work together as complementary parts of a more enlightened penal system. ( People v. Ralph, 24 Cal.2d 575, 580 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“specify that the minimum term of imprisonment ... shall be six months.”
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.