36 Cal. 3d 134 - People v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 4 Cal. 4th 206 - People v. Thomas (1992), 4 Cal. 4th 389 - Johnson v. Bradley (1992)
90 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 Eddings v. Oklahoma · 1 Cal. 3d 475 - People v. Gilbert · 69 Cal. 2d 491 - People v. Superior Court · People v. Massie · 24 Cal. 3d 514 - People v. Tanner
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not decide constitutional questions unless compelled to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In discussing the scope of section 1385, we do not mean to suggest that the court's only choices are to strike both the bodily harm and ransom allegations for YA eligibility or to deny the motion entirely and sentence defendant to prison for life without possibility of parole. Although those were the only alternatives urged at the time of sentencing, we note that there is a broad range of sentencing options between those extremes. For example, the court could strike only the bodily harm allegation, thereby reducing the kidnaping sentence to life with possibility of parole, which carries a minimum parole eligibility term of seven years. [Citation.] ... [¶] In sum, the court has a wide range of sentencing choices short of imposing the imprisonment without possibility of parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'plea[ ] to the sheet' " represents a plea made "in the hope that the court will show leniency,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Avignone
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.