244 Cal. App. 4th 935 - People v. Ruff’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · 12 Cal. 4th 145 - People v. Coronado · 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks · People v. Cruz · 30 Cal. 4th 894 - Robert L. 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable presumption that a legislative act mitigating the punishment for a particular criminal offense is intended to apply to all nonfinal judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a section 667.5 enhancement is based on the defendant's status as a recidivist, not on the underlying criminal conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contains no clear expression with respect to retroactivity as was found in Flores”
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.