3 Cal. 3d 89 - People v. Tenorio’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 district · 391 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 400 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) (1996), 19 Cal. 3d 182 - Solberg v. Superior Court (1977)
3 district · 391 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke · 58 Cal. 2d 645 - People v. Sidener · People v. Valenti · In Re Larsen · 68 Cal. 2d 762 - In Re Caffey
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 400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the process which leads to acquittal or to sentencing is fundamentally judicial in nature.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Constitutional jurisdiction of the court to act cannot be turned on and off at the whimsy of either the district attorney or the Legislature. The power to act under our system of government means the power of an independent court to exercise its judicial discretion, not to servilely wait on the pleasure of the executive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[n]o allegation of fact which, if admitted or found to be true, would change the penalty for the offense charged from what the penalty would be if such fact were not alleged and admitted or proved to be true may be dismissed by the court or stricken from the accusatory pleading except upon motion of the district attorney.'”
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.