30 Cal. 3d 705 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott (1994), 23 Cal. 4th 472 - Kasler v. Lockyer (2000)
179 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 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · 25 Cal. 3d 754 - People v. Harvey · 17 Cal. 3d 129 - Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley · 11 Cal. 3d 801 - Clean Air Constituency v. California State Air Resources Board · 5 Cal. 3d 480 - People Ex Rel. Younger v. County of El Dorado
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine prohibiting delegations of legislative power does not invalidate reasonable grants of power to an administrative agency, when suitable safeguards are established to guide the power's use and to protect against misuse.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“adopt rules for court administration, practice and procedure, not inconsistent with statute, and perform other functions prescribed by statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Moreover, standards for administrative application of a statute need not be expressly set forth; they may be implied by the statutory purpose.”
2 later decisions 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.