31 Cal. 4th 179 - People v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 1266 - People v. Canty (2004), People v. Conley (2016)
156 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · People v. Aranda · 19 Cal. 4th 1106 - Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity · 29 Cal. 4th 228 - Cooley v. Superior Court · People v. Francis
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is not unconstitutional for the legislature to confer such benefit only prospectively, neither is it unconstitutional for the legislature to specify "a classification between groups differently situated, so long as a reasonable basis for the distinction exists.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`A legislative mitigation of the penalty for a particular crime represents a legislative judgment that the lesser penalty or the different treatment is sufficient to meet the legitimate ends of the criminal law.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n amendatory statute lessening punishment is presumed to apply in all cases not yet reduced to final judgment as of the amendatory statute's effective date”
3 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.