50 Cal. 3d 428 - People v. Prather’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 894 - People v. Pieters (1991), 5 Cal. 4th 1142 - People v. Jones (1993)
96 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 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro · 14 Cal. 3d 831 - Estate of McDill · 37 Cal. 3d 826 - People v. Jackson · 15 Cal. 3d 79 - People v. Antick · 22 Cal. 3d 208 - AMADOR VALLEY JT. UN. HIGH SCH. v. State Bd. of Equal.
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Any prior felony conviction of any person in any criminal proceeding, whether adult or juvenile, shall be used without limitation for purposes of enhancement of sentence in any criminal proceeding.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“667.5(b) is aimed primarily at the underlying felony conviction, and only secondarily, as an indicium of the felony's seriousness, at the prior prison term”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“increased punishment and effective deterrence ... by increasing the total period of imprisonment for recidivist offenders.”
3 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.