In Re Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 65 Cal. 2d 349 - Wilke & Holzheiser, Inc. v. Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (1966), 39 Cal. 3d 464 - In Re Jackson (1985)
4 federal appellate · 50 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 63 Cal. 2d 740 - In Re Estrada · People v. Griffin
Most-quoted passages
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““Does such a statute increase or decrease the punishment? Does it mitigate the rigors of the old law? Whatever the technical nature of a parole may be, from a realistic point of view it is our opinion that such a statute increases the punishment rather than decreases it. It follows, that to apply it to petitioner, would be unconstitutional. It is elementary, of course, that a statute amended after an act is committed so as to increase the punishment cannot be made applicable to an accused, because to do so would run afoul of the prohibition against ex post facto laws.... [¶] ... [W]hile accepting the benefits of the old law by accepting parole under it, petitioner also insists he is entitled to the benefits of the amendatory act without its detriments. This cannot be. This court must determine whether the amendatory statute increased or decreased the penalty. As applied to petitioner, we hold that when considered realistically and as a whole, the amendatory statute increased the punishment, and so cannot be made applicable to petitioner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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