75 Cal. App. 4th 94 - People v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 42 Cal. 3d 284 - People v. Barnes · 46 Cal. 3d 919 - People v. Bean · 2 Cal. 4th 489 - People v. Ralph International Thomas · 14 Cal. App. 4th 1555 - People v. Barrera · 58 Cal. App. 4th 1196 - People v. Aguilar
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very person who, with the intent to cause cruel or extreme pain and suffering for the purpose of revenge, extortion, persuasion, or for any sadistic purpose, inflicts great bodily injury ... upon the person of another, is guilty of torture.”
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.