People v. Pearson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that section 654(a) of the California Penal Code — which prior to being amended in 1997 contained language identical to that in title 14, section 104 — prohibits multiple punishments based on a single act or an indivisible course of conduct
• “[W]hen multiple convictions are based on a single act. . . or an indivisible course of conduct, the use of such convictions must not result in the defendant being ‘punished under more than one’ Penal Code provision.”
• \stay\ serves to comply with prohibition against multiple punishments
• court found reversal of properly stayed count \unnecessary\
• “stay” serves to comply with prohibition against multiple punishments

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Scott
  California Supreme Court· 1994-12-30· cited 1,878×
• People v. Holt
  California Supreme Court· 1997-05-19· cited 794×
• People v. Correa
  California Supreme Court· 2012-06-21· cited 422×
• People v. Reed
  California Supreme Court· 2006-07-03· cited 395×
• People v. Richardson
  California Supreme Court· 2008-05-22· cited 350×
• People v. Murphy
  California Supreme Court· 2001-03-29· cited 306×
• People v. Alford
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-01-13· cited 247×
• People v. Colantuono
  California Supreme Court· 1994-01-31· cited 229×
• People v. Ortega
  California Supreme Court· 1998-12-17· cited 229×
• People v. Thompson
  California Supreme Court· 1990-02-08· cited 187×
• People v. Montoya
  California Supreme Court· 2004-08-09· cited 152×
• People v. Benson
  California Supreme Court· 1998-05-14· cited 139×
• People v. Hernandez
  California Supreme Court· 1988-08-04· cited 134×
• People v. Fields
  California Supreme Court· 1996-05-02· cited 133×
• People v. Sanchez
  California Supreme Court· 2001-02-05· cited 133×
• People v. Sharret
  California Court of Appeal· 2011-01-10· cited 128×
• People v. Sloan
  California Supreme Court· 2007-08-16· cited 126×
• People v. Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 2002-06-17· cited 115×
• People v. Vidana
  California Supreme Court· 2016-08-18· cited 112×
• People v. Ramirez
  California Supreme Court· 2009-02-26· cited 111×

Cites

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

• Neal v. State of California
  California Supreme Court· 1960-12-13· cited 950×
• People v. West
  California Supreme Court· 1970-12-03· cited 552×
• People v. Beamon
  California Supreme Court· 1973-01-04· cited 538×
• People v. Castro
  California Supreme Court· 1985-03-11· cited 443×
• People v. McFarland
  California Supreme Court· 1962-11-20· cited 375×
• People v. Greer
  California Supreme Court· 1947-09-17· cited 336×
• People v. Miller
  California Supreme Court· 1977-01-20· cited 262×
• People v. Memro
  California Supreme Court· 1985-06-06· cited 247×
• People v. Tassell
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-20· cited 237×
• People v. Bauer
  California Supreme Court· 1969-12-11· cited 231×
• In Re Hess
  California Supreme Court· 1955-10-04· cited 228×
• People v. Kynette
  California Supreme Court· 1940-07-30· cited 201×
• People v. Marshall
  California Supreme Court· 1957-04-19· cited 200×
• People v. Moran
  California Supreme Court· 1970-01-27· cited 171×
• In Re Foss
  California Supreme Court· 1974-03-14· cited 169×
• In re Wright
  California Supreme Court· 1967-01-31· cited 167×
• People v. Brown
  California Supreme Court· 1958-01-07· cited 151×
• People v. Cole
  California Supreme Court· 1982-06-03· cited 149×
• People v. Niles
  California Court of Appeal· 1964-06-10· cited 148×
• People v. Tideman
  California Supreme Court· 1962-04-27· cited 126×