People v. Ream’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2025
13 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“convicting and sentencing a defendant for both felony murder and the predicate felony does not necessarily violate the `multiple punishments' strand of the Double Jeopardy Clause”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Taylor“Because the statutory elements, not the particular facts of the case, are indicative of legislative intent, the focus must be on these statutory elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Blockburger test is a tool to be used to ascertain legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.