30 Cal. 3d 553 - People v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 385 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably California v. Ramos (1983), 33 Cal. 3d 572 - People v. Fosselman (1983)
4 federal appellate · 371 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 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · Thornton v. Dennis M. · 22 Cal. 3d 208 - AMADOR VALLEY JT. UN. HIGH SCH. v. State Bd. of Equal. · Amador Valley Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Equalization
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 385 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“You are instructed that under the State Constitution a Governor is empowered to grant a reprieve, pardon, or commutation of a sentence following conviction of a crime. 5 "Under this power a Governor may in the future commute or modify a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole to a lesser sentence that would include the possibility of parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To the contrary, the instruction is purely informational, explaining to those jurors who might otherwise be misled that a sentence denominated `life imprisonment without possibility of parole' is nonetheless subject to possible commutation by the Governor. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the only way to be sure that the defendant is never again let loose upon society ... is to impose a sentence of death.”
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.