Stephens v. Toomey’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 181 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 23 Cal. 3d 545 - People v. Perez (1979), 53 Cal. 2d 370 - People v. Banks (1959)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 181 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 27 Cal. 2d 220 - People v. Williams · 39 Cal. 2d 41 - In Re Levi · In Re Phillips · In Re Lavine · Meyer v. Board of Medical Examiners
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When judgment is not pronounced and further proceedings are suspended, there is no judgment against [the defendant]. His activities are limited only by the terms of the probationary order, under the supervision of the probation officer. Upon revocation of probation the defendant is entitled to a hearing and to be sentenced, before he can be committed to the appropriate institution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judgment is not final if there still remains some legal means of setting it aside.... Certain means to that end have been made available to the accused. The traditional method was by appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was a settled tenet of the common law that '... irregularities not going to the jurisdiction or legality of the proceedings will not be reviewed' after judgment on a guilty plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Alwien
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.