People v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado v. Thomas W. McBRIDE (2009), People v. Jimenez (2008)
25 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 United States v. Leon · People v. Quintana · People v. Leske · People v. Gutierrez · People v. Rollins
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sentencing court imposes a sentence in the aggravated range based upon two or more factors and at least one of those factors may legitimately be considered by the court and supports the imposition of that sentence, the fact that the court also considered an illegitimate factor will not vitiate that sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Harmon
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.