Fearn v. Zolin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Ward · Hough v. McCarthy · 13 Cal. 3d 95 - Walsh v. Kirby · 155 Cal. App. 3d 1103 - People v. Smith · 235 Cal. App. 3d 449 - Peretto v. Department of Motor Vehicles
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Defendant] contends the imposition of an administrative licensure suspension as well as a criminal licensure suspension violates ... his due process rights. “Penal Code section 15 defines ’punishments’ or penal sanctions as: “ ‘A crime or public offense is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it, and to which is annexed, upon conviction, either of the following punishments: “‘1. Death; “ ‘2. Imprisonment; “‘3. Fine; “ ‘4. Removal from office; or “ ‘5. Disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit in this State.’ “A license suspension is not among the punishments listed in Penal Code section 15 and thus is not a penal sanction . . . .” (Fearn v. Zolin (1992) 9 Cal.App.4th 1756, 1761-1762 [ 12 Cal.Rptr.2d 314 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Grayden N.
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.