28 Cal. 3d 210 - In Re Jeanice D.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Lance W. (1985), 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (1994)
159 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 Neal v. State of California · 3 Cal. 3d 16 - In Re William M. · 18 Cal. 3d 698 - People v. Chi Ko Wong · In Re Lee · Perry v. Jordan
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a youth who is convicted of an offense carrying an indeterminate sentence with a possible life imprisonment maximum (e.g., a sentence of `five years to life') does not fall within the `imprisonment for life' exclusion embodied in the statute, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`in the precise and technical sense which had been placed upon them by the courts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“confinement in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.”
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.