3 Cal. 5th 640 - People v. DeLeon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'is likely to recur, might otherwise evade appellate review, and is of continuing public interest.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Johnson · People v. Berch

2. “'[D]ue process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands.' [Citation.] Accordingly, resolution of the issue whether the ... procedures provided here are constitutionally sufficient requires analysis of the governmental and private interests that are affected. [Citations.] More precisely, ... identification of the specific dictates of due process generally requires consideration of three distinct factors: First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the Government's interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural requirement would entail. [Citation.]”

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

3. “[w]e 'start[ ] with the presumption that the Legislature acted within its authority' and uphold the validity of the legislative amendment 'if, by any reasonable construction, it can be said that the statute furthers the purposes' of the initiative.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 Cal. Rptr. 3d 555 - People v. Superior Court