People v. Littlejohn’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1970 · most notably 68 Cal. 2d 299 - People v. Rosales (1968), People v. Jackson (1961)
30 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. Rabinowitz · Trupiano v. United States · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan · People v. Maddox · 47 Cal. 2d 374 - People v. Roberts
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where the entry and search are rightful and there is present no element of trespass or fraudulent invasion of the rights of the citizens, there is no reason for excluding evidence of crime discovered in the course of the search. If the officers . . . had discovered in the cellar a counterfeiting plant in operation, would it have been their duty to ignore it? If they had come upon the body of a murdered man, would their testimony as to finding the body be excluded ? ’ ” See also People v. Littlejohn, 148 Cal.App.2d 786, 791 [ 307 P.2d 425 ].”
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.