In Re Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 1980 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 410 - In Re Lynch (1972), 227 Cal. App. 2d 369 - In Re Ward (1964)
39 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 United States v. Daugherty · People v. Wells · 54 Cal. 2d 9 - People v. Harmon · 31 Cal. 2d 43 - In Re Bramble · In Re Seeley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental to the indeterminate sentence law that every such sentence is for the maximum unless and until the Authority acts to fix a shorter term.... The principle of law is ... the same whether we are dealing with a maximum term of life or a maximum term of years.”
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.