8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
580 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 587 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 11 Cal. 3d 738 - People v. Thornton (1974), 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald (1984)
580 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 · People v. Daniels · 58 Cal. 2d 748 - People v. McFarland · People v. Redmond · 35 Cal. 2d 175 - People v. Knowles
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 587 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f all of the offenses were merely incident to, or were the means of accomplishing or facilitating one objective, defendant may be found to have harbored a single intent and therefore may be punished only once. [Citation.] [¶] If, on the other hand, defendant harbored 'multiple criminal objectives,' which were independent of and not merely incidental to each other, he may be punished for each statutory violation committed in pursuit of each objective, 'even though the violations shared common acts or were parts of an otherwise indivisible course of conduct.' [Citation.]”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“a course of conduct divisible in time, although directed to one objective, may give rise to multiple violations and punishment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Jacobo · People v. Kopp“[b]ecause of the many differing circumstances wherein criminal conduct involving multiple violations may be deemed to arise out of an `act or omission,' there can be no universal construction which directs the proper application of section 654 in every instance.”
3 later decisions 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.