63 Cal. 2d 671 - People v. Ridley’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably People v. Haston (1968), 18 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Miller (1977)
175 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Griffin v. California · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Fahy v. Connecticut · 62 Cal. 2d 338 - People v. Dorado
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he purpose of the protection against multiple punishment is to insure that the defendant's punishment will be commensurate with his criminal liability and a defendant who commits an act of violence with the intent to harm more than one person or by means likely to cause harm to several persons is more culpable than a defendant who harms only one person."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it appears that the assault upon Bennett was the means of perpetrating the robbery and that both offenses were incident to one objective, robbery.”
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.