72 Cal. App. 4th 1466 - People v. Hedge’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 37 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Yartz (2005), 88 Cal. App. 4th 1202 - People v. Hubbart (2001)
28 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 Kansas v. Hendricks · 19 Cal. 4th 1138 - Hubbart v. Superior Court · 43 Cal. 3d 696 - Agricultural Labor Relations Board v. Tex-Cal Land Management, Inc. · 65 Cal. App. 4th 864 - Terhune v. Superior Court · 16 Cal. App. 4th 931 - Betz v. Pankow
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the courts in Garcetti [Lyles] and Whitley determined, the unambiguous language of the Act contains no requirement a defendant’s custody by “lawful” at the time such petition is filed, only that the person alleged to be an SVP be in “custody under the jurisdiction of the [DOC], [citations]. No jurisdictional error is shown.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any longer than he suffers from a mental abnormality rendering him unable to control his dangerousness.”
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.