People v. Soto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “had occasion to consider Proposition 47 eligibility for what we will call a pure 'theft-plus' offense, i.e., one that is not identified as grand theft and requires additional necessary elements beyond the theft itself. Nothing in Romanowski or Page suggests that section 490.2 extends to any course of conduct that happens to include obtaining property by theft worth less than $ 950.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 Cal. 5th 415 - People v. Valenzuela · People v. Weir

2. “Every person who willfully obtains personal identifying information, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 530.55, of another person, and uses that information for any unlawful purpose, including to obtain, or attempt to obtain, credit, goods, services, real property, or medical information without the consent of that person, is guilty of a public offense.”

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

3. “An overexpansive reading of Romanowski and Page might construe that 'theft-plus' offense as petty theft under section 490.2. Such a construction would thwart Proposition 47's objective to reduce sentences for nonviolent crimes while shifting spending toward more serious offenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 Cal. 5th 415 - People v. Valenzuela