People v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2020
11 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 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero) · 22 Cal. 3d 749 - People v. Arbuckle · 21 Cal. 3d 208 - People v. Collins · 42 Cal. 3d 437 - People v. Martin · 213 Cal. App. 3d 1214 - People v. Ames
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t lacks jurisdiction to alter the terms of a plea bargain so that it becomes more favorable to a defendant unless of course, the parties agree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Galindo“' "A plea agreement is, in essence, a contract between the defendant and the prosecutor to which the court consents to be bound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Galindo
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.