49 Cal. App. 4th 1263 - In Re Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘[I]t is true that the new statute only applied to defendant because he has the status of a convicted felon, and he achieved that status before that statute became effective[;] nevertheless, the new statute only applies to an event occurring after its effective date, i.e. defendant’s possession of a shotgun.’” Id. at 1269 , 57 Cal.Rptr.2d 314 (quoting People v. Mills (1992) 6 Cal.App.4th 1278 , 8 Cal.Rptr.2d 310 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Land

2. “The crux of the constitutional promise of equal protection is that persons similarly situated shall be treated equally by the laws. [Citation.] However, neither clause [of the United States or California Constitutions] prohibits legislative bodies from making classifications; they simply require that laws or other governmental regulations be justified by sufficient reasons.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Bloomfield

3. “our state equal protection provisions, while `substantially the equivalent of the guarantees contained in the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, are possessed of an independent vitality,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 23 Cal. 4th 472 - Kasler v. Lockyer