32 Cal. 4th 944 - People v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably People v. Jones (2012), 123 Cal. App. 4th 695 - People v. Meeks (2004)
79 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 Neal v. State of California · 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon · 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Whether a course of criminal conduct is divisible and therefore gives rise to more than one act within the meaning of section 654 depends on the intent and objective of the actor. If all of the offenses were incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one.' [Citation.] A decade ago, we criticized this test but also reaffirmed it as the established law of this state. [Citation.] We noted, however, that cases have sometimes found separate objectives when the objectives were either (1) consecutive even if similar or (2) different even if simultaneous. In those cases, multiple punishment was permitted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Jacobo · People v. Phung“An act or omission that is punishable in different ways by different provisions of law shall be punished under the provision that provides for the longest potential term of imprisonment, but in no case shall the act or omission be punished under more than one provision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once a triggering event occurs, the offense of failing to register is continuing in nature. Failure to register within five days of defendant's birthday occurred after December 8, 1998, and again after December 8, 1999, and every year thereafter. Although the periods for each of these offenses overlap somewhat and the objective of each is the same, it cannot reasonably be argued that defendant can be punished only once for each successive failure to register. Similarly, every time defendant moves, this triggers a new registration requirement, each of which continues indefinitely and overlaps with the one before it. However, each is a separate offense. [¶] `[T]he purpose of section 654 "is to insure that a defendant's punishment will be commensurate with his culpability.”
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.