People v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Gideon v. Wainwright · Custis v. United States · 1 Cal. 3d 122 - In Re Tahl · 13 Cal. 4th 497 - People v. Superior Court (Romero)
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“argument begs the fundamental question, which is whether the trial court had authority to consider a Boykin / Tahl challenge to the 1974 prior in the context of a petition for resentencing under section 1170.126.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Cabrera“merely provides a limited mechanism within which the trial court may consider a reduction of the sentence below the original term,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Cabrera“[n]othing in section 1170.126 authorizes a collateral attack on a prior strike conviction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Cabrera
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.