People v. Floyd

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting defendant’s assertion that prospective legislation fails rational basis review and noting state’s legitimate interests in ensuring “penal laws will maintain their desired deterrent effect by carrying out the original prescribed punishment as written”
• savings clause applied only to the purely ameliorative amendment in question passed by Proposition, \ameliorat[ing] the punishment for those persons convicted of nonviolent drug possession offenses who are eligible for its programs\ and \shall be applied prospectively\
• ‘‘penal laws will maintain their desired deterrent effect by carrying out the original prescribed punishment as written’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

95 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Yates v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2019-11-04· cited 2,720×
• People v. Yearwood
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-01-29· cited 374×
• People v. Martinez
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2019-01-24· cited 323×
• People v. Conley
  California Supreme Court· 2016-06-30· cited 255×
• People v. Canty
  California Supreme Court· 2004-05-27· cited 220×
• People v. Rajanayagam
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-11-15· cited 213×
• People v. Anthony
  California Court of Appeals, 5th District· 2019-03-08· cited 186×
• People v. Padilla
  California Supreme Court· 2022-05-26· cited 170×
• People v. Morales
  California Supreme Court· 2016-06-16· cited 161×
• People v. Esquivel
  California Supreme Court· 2021-06-17· cited 145×
• People v. Cruz
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-07-03· cited 123×
• People v. Shabazz
  California Court of Appeal· 2015-06-01· cited 122×
• People v. Kennedy
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-09-14· cited 116×
• People v. DeHoyos
  California Supreme Court· 2018-03-12· cited 101×
• People v. Galvan
  California Court of Appeal· 2007-09-27· cited 99×
• People v. Lynch
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-09-13· cited 74×
• People v. Espinoza
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-05-27· cited 61×
• People v. Verba
  California Court of Appeal· 2012-10-31· cited 52×
• People v. Mora
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-03-29· cited 48×
• People v. Valdez
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-04-05· cited 46×

Cites

48 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• In Re Estrada
  California Supreme Court· 1965-12-23· cited 2,432×
• Briggs v. Eden Council for Hope & Opportunity
  California Supreme Court· 1999-01-21· cited 692×
• People v. Aranda
  California Supreme Court· 1965-11-12· cited 665×
• Cooley v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2003-01-15· cited 392×
• People v. Francis
  California Supreme Court· 1969-05-06· cited 322×
• People v. Nasalga
  California Supreme Court· 1996-02-29· cited 260×
• People v. Avery
  California Supreme Court· 2002-01-17· cited 239×
• People v. Weidert
  California Supreme Court· 1985-09-19· cited 220×
• In Re Kapperman
  California Supreme Court· 1974-05-23· cited 192×
• People v. Rossi
  California Supreme Court· 1976-11-10· cited 154×
• Fleming v. Zant
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-01· cited 141×
• Sperry & Hutchinson Co. v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1911-05-01· cited 118×
• People v. Pedro T.
  California Supreme Court· 1994-12-12· cited 107×
• United States v. Gregory S. Brebner
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-12-09· cited 101×
• Rossi v. Brown
  California Supreme Court· 1995-03-06· cited 93×
• People v. Grant
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-05-26· cited 91×
• ABOD v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 75×
• Ex parte Rosenheim
  California Supreme Court· 1890-03-06· cited 71×
• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-08-25· cited 68×
• People v. Ramsey
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-08-10· cited 61×