People v. Soper’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 60 Cal. 4th 335 - People v. Bryant, Smith and Wheeler (2014), 53 Cal. 4th 771 - People v. Thomas (2012)
104 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Lane · Drew v. United States · 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish the existence of a common plan or scheme, 'the common features must indicate the existence of a plan rather than a series of similar spontaneous acts, but the plan thus revealed need not be distinctive or unusual.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“two or more different offenses connected together in their commission ... or two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is normally sufficient to dispel any suggestion of prejudice and to justify a trial court's refusal to sever properly joined charges.”
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.