33 Cal. 4th 821 - People v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably 47 Cal. 4th 1172 - People v. McKee (2010), 52 Cal. 4th 610 - People v. McKinnon (2011)
182 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Chambers v. Mississippi · Rock v. Arkansas · Frye v. United States · United States v. Batchelder
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“numerous factors properly may enter into a prosecutor's decision to charge under one statute and not another, such as a defendant's background and the severity of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'not have a fundamental interest in a specific term of imprisonment or in the designation a particular crime receives.' [Citations.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'The Legislature is responsible for determining which class of crimes deserves certain punishments and which crimes should be distinguished from others.'”
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.