People v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently September 1980 · most notably 62 Cal. 2d 769 - People v. Perez (1965), 50 Cal. 2d 802 - People v. McShann (1958)
11 federal appellate · 136 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 605
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Agnello v. United States · Goldman v. United States · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan · 45 Cal. 2d 776 - People v. Gorg
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Searches and seizures incidental to an arrest but without search warrants are not necessarily unreasonable but are, in the absence of unusual circumstances, entirely reasonable. The right to search the place where the arrest is made and to find and seize things connected with the crime as its fruits or as the means by which it is committed stems not only from the authority to search the person but also from the long standing practice of searching for other proofs of guilt within the control of the accused upon arrest. (Citation.) ... If the arrest is valid then a search of the immediate premises where the defendant is arrested is reasonable. ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When such a person is truly an informant he simply points the finger of suspicion toward a person who has violated the law. He puts the wheels in motion which cause the defendant to be suspected and perhaps arrested, but he plays no part in the criminal act with which the defendant is later charged.”
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.