People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 19 Cal. 4th 686 - People v. Ortega (1998), United States v. Wofford (1997)
6 federal appellate · 23 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 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court · 26 Cal. 3d 557 - People v. Johnson · Neal v. State of California · 8 Cal. 3d 625 - People v. Beamon · 19 Cal. 3d 99 - People v. James
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence is undisputed that at the time defendant took Cirrencione's purse from her, the purse was lying on the car seat. The purse was not upon Cirrencione's person, attached to her in any way, or carried by her. Cirrencione had laid the purse aside, although it remained in her immediate presence and was under her actual control. Under the authority of McElroy , we are compelled to conclude that the evidence is insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the conviction for grant theft person. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether a course of criminal conduct is divisible and therefore gives rise to more than one act within the meaning of section 654 depends on the intent and objective of the actor. If all of the offenses were incident to one objective, the defendant may be punished for any one of such offenses but not for more than one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“property taken from the actual and immediate control of the victim is not taken from 'the person' of the victim . . . unless the property is physically attached to the victim in some manner”
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.