People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Notwithstanding subdivision (a), any person who is guilty of forgery relating to a check, bond, bank bill, note, cashier's check, traveler's check, or money order, where the value of the check, bond, bank bill, note, cashier's check, traveler's check, or money order does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($950), shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year.... This subdivision shall not be applicable to any person who is convicted both of forgery and of identity theft, as defined in Section 530.5.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Bloomfield · 233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 599 - People v. Roderick Wash.

2. “Proposition 47 was intended to ensure prison spending is focused on violent and serious offenders, to maximize alternatives for nonserious, nonviolent crimes, and to invest the savings generated thereby into educational, social, and mental health causes. [Citation.] To this end, Proposition 47 reduced most possessory drug offenses and thefts of property valued at $950 or less to straight misdemeanors.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Bloomfield · 233 Cal. Rptr. 3d 599 - People v. Roderick Wash.

3. “Prescriptions are the means by which physicians and other authorized practitioners achieve legitimate medical purposes. ( People v. Wheeler (2005) 127 Cal.App.4th 873 , 880 [ 26 Cal.Rptr.3d 138 ].) 'The protection of the health and safety of the public in obtaining medical prescriptions is critical. [Citations.] Physicians, pharmacists, and patients must be able to rely on the integrity of the system. [Laws against prescription forgery are] aimed at helping preserve that integrity by prohibiting counterfeiting of a physician's authority to prescribe, deceiving of the pharmacist, corrupting the public's legitimate supply of medicine, and, potentially, defrauding of insurance companies or government programs. Far more is implicated than just an offender's personal involvement with drugs.' ( Ibid. ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Gollardo