People v. Ball’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably People v. Sandoval (1966), 173 Cal. App. 2d 367 - People v. Murphy (1959)
43 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 47 Cal. 2d 374 - People v. Roberts · 47 Cal. 2d 45 - People v. Burke · 45 Cal. 2d 640 - People v. Brown · 147 Cal. App. 2d 248 - People v. Ortiz · 146 Cal. App. 2d 530 - People v. Montes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We know of no rule by which a valid search, justifiable without reference to an arrest, is voided by the unlawfulness of an arrest upon which the search does not depend.”
2 later decisions 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.