65 Cal. 2d 650 - In re Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 340 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 350 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon (1973), 18 Cal. 3d 873 - People v. Miller (1977)
4 federal appellate · 340 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 Neal v. State of California · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles · 50 Cal. 2d 383 - People v. Wein · People v. Chessman
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 350 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appropriate procedure at the appellate level is to eliminate the effect of the judgment as to the less severely punishable offense insofar as penalty alone is concerned.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the Legislature has not expressly provided for a stay of execution of sentence in the Niles situation, the power to proceed as the trial court did in that case is within the fair import of section 654. As the appellate court there explained ( 227 Cal.App.2d at p. 756 , 39 Cal.Rptr. 11 ) that procedure reasonably reconciles the policies involved in applying section 654 to protect the rights of both the state and the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“concurrent sentences violating section 654 would result in detrimental operation of other statutes that govern punishment.”
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.