People v. DeSimone’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2018
22 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 Jones v. Thomas · 12 Cal. 4th 145 - People v. Coronado · 44 Cal. 3d 713 - People v. Melton · 42 Cal. 3d 1222 - People v. Allen · 10 Cal. 4th 234 - People v. Jenkins
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“convicted in the present case or cases of committing a[ ] [specified] offense ... against more than one victim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies to any conviction of a qualifying sexual offense when the defendant stands currently convicted of at least one other such offense against a different victim. It does not include any language which specifically provides that unlike all the other enumerated circumstances in the One Strike law, it [ (the multiple-victims circumstance) ] may be used only once in a particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall be imposed on the defendant once for any offense or offenses committed against a single victim during a single occasion. If there are multiple victims during a single occasion, the term specified ... shall be imposed on the defendant once for each separate victim.”
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.