People v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably 34 Cal. 4th 1002 - People v. Lopez (2005), 70 Cal. App. 4th 1456 - People v. Herrera (1999)
6 federal appellate · 36 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 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 42 Cal. 3d 891 - People v. Overstreet · 5 Cal. 4th 1142 - People v. Jones · 228 Cal. App. 3d 990 - People v. Nathaniel C.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This was not the impulsive act of a frightened teenager against an armed criminal. This was a coldly premeditated crime where the participants had plenty of time to reflect on the consequences of their actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any person who violates this subdivision in the commission of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life, shall not be paroled until a minimum of 15 calendar years have been served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for life”
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.