People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably People v. Park (2013), 65 Cal. App. 4th 1242 - People v. Castello (1998)
25 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 Weaver v. Graham · 7 Cal. 4th 380 - People v. Ewoldt · 52 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Pieters · 42 Cal. 3d 891 - People v. Overstreet · 36 Cal. 3d 77 - People v. Tassell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in [Penal Code] section 667, subdivision (c), is ambiguous because it can narrowly mean a verdict or guilty plea or more broadly include both the verdict or plea and the judgment pronounced thereon. [Citations.] [Defendant] claims that under established rules of statutory construction, we must adopt that latter interpretation because it is more favorable to him. . . . We disagree. [¶] `In People v. Rhoads (1990) 221 Cal.App.3d 56, 60 , 270 Cal.Rptr. 266 . . ., the court recognized that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] person could commit and plead guilty to any number of violations within the purview of the statute, but so long as sentencing did not occur, the mandatory three-year enhancement would be avoided. The Legislature certainly did not intend to benefit a repeat offender such as defendant based solely on the fortuity of the timing of sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the term `conviction' has no fixed definition and has been interpreted by the courts of this state to have various meanings, depending upon the context in which the word is used.”
1 later decision 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.