42 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 384 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 9 Cal. 4th 331 - People v. Scott (1994), 25 Cal. 4th 136 - People v. Murphy (2001)
4 federal appellate · 371 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 · 3 Cal. 3d 595 - People v. West · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon · 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro
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 384 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any subsequent sentences imposed on defendant can be enhanced on the basis of the convictions for which he served a sentence; but convictions for which service of sentence was stayed may not be so used unless the Legislature explicitly declares that subsequent penal or administrative action may be based on such stayed convictions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“( Ibid. ) Section 654 provides that while a defendant may be convicted of any number of offenses charged, he or she may be sentenced only once for each criminal act. ( Id., subd. (a).)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“multiple convictions may not be based on necessarily included offenses.”
4 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.