People v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Contention that the trial court’s judgment is erroneous because it did not take evidence upon the question of the prior convictions is utterly without merit. It is not an arbitrary judgment of the court when it adjudicates, a prisoner to be an habitual criminal after he admits in open court two prior convictions for felonies and service of prison terms therefor at the time of his pleading guilty to the felony charged in the pending accusation. The confession of a prisoner at the bar of his guilt as charged as well as of the truth of the allegation of prior convictions is, in the absence of insane delusions, most satisfactory evidence upon which to convict and will support a judgment that he is an habitual criminal. (People v. Nicholson, 34 Cal.App.2d 327 [ 93 P.2d 223 ]; In re Boatwright, 216 Cal. 677 [ 15 P.2d 755 ]; People v. Dawson, 210 Cal. 366 [ 292 P. 267 ]; People v. Birdsell, 6 Cal.App.2d 749 [ 45 P.2d 378 ].)’ ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re McVickers · People v. Allen