232 Cal. App. 2d 544 - People v. Woolbert’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1984
17 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 People v. Ralph · 62 Cal. 2d 307 - In re Cruz · 195 Cal. App. 2d 814 - In Re Oxidean · 206 Cal. App. 2d 318 - People v. Santana
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever any person who has been charged with or convicted of a public offense and committed to the authority appears to the authority, either at the time of his presentation or after having become an inmate of any institution or facility subject to the jurisdiction of the authority, to be an improper person to be retained in any such institution or facility, or to be so incorrigible or so incapable of reformation under the discipline of the authority as to render his detention detrimental to the interests of the authority and the other persons committed thereto, the authority may return him to the committing court. In the case of a person convicted of a public offense, said court may then commit him to a state prison or sentence him to a county jail as provided by law for punishment of the offense of which he was convicted. The maximum term of imprisonment for a person committed to a state prison under this section shall be a period equal to the maximum term prescribed by law1 for the offense of which he was convicted less the period during which he was under the control of the Youth Authority. The Adult Authority may, after seeking the advice of the Youth Authority, allow any such person time credit reductions from his term of confinement according to the table set forth in Section 2920 of the Penal Code for the time during which such person was under the control of the Youth Authority. In the case of a person who has been committed to the authority by a juvenile court, th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The procedure outlined above was adequate under Welfare and Institutions Code section 1737.1 to warrant appellant's return to the jurisdiction of the court, and the court was by this procedure reinvested with the same power to pronounce judgment for conviction ... as it had in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Stevenson“commit him [defendant] to a state prison ... as provided by law for punishment of the offense[s] of which he was convicted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Stevenson
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.