16 Cal. 3d 869 - People v. Leib’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 43 Cal. 3d 171 - People v. Ledesma (1987), 34 Cal. 3d 251 - People v. Smith (1983)
72 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · 1 Cal. 3d 379 - People v. Mosher · People v. Simon
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, the officer's continued exploration of respondent's pocket after having concluded that it contained no weapon was unrelated to `[t]he sole justification of the search ... the protection of the police officer and others nearby.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hinkel · People v. Limon
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.