People v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Proposition 36 changed the triggering language of the subdivision, and subdivision (a)(7) now applies not only when serious or violent felonies were not committed on the same occasion or did not arise from the same set of operative facts, but whenever a defendant is convicted of multiple serious or violent felonies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Buchanan

2. “been convicted of a nonserious and/or violent felony, the term imposed for that crime [must be] consecutive to the terms of the serious and/or violent felonies ... regardless of whether those serious and/or violent felonies were committed on 'the same occasion' or arose from 'the same set of operative facts.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Buchanan

3. “trial courts have discretion to impose concurrent sentences for multiple serious or violent felonies against a single victim if they were committed on the 'same occasion' or arose from the 'same set of operative facts.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Buchanan