33 Cal. 3d 176 - In Re Stanworth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 34 Cal. 4th 1061 - In Re Dannenberg (2005), 39 Cal. 3d 836 - People v. Weidert (1985)
9 federal appellate · 94 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Lindsey v. State of Washington · People v. Daniels
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establish criteria for the setting of parole release dates and in doing so shall consider the number of victims of the crime ... and other factors in mitigation or aggravation of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“comply with the sentencing rules that the Judicial Council may issue and any sentencing information relevant to the setting of parole release dates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Adult Authority exercised wide discretion in determining parole release dates. Few written guidelines, rules or decisions existed for reference”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perveler v. Estelle
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.