People v. Vigil’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2011
22 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 Chimel v. California · Johnson v. United States · Preston v. United States · Chapman v. United States · Trupiano v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he strong odor of burning marijuana, and the smoke emerging from the doorway . . . was sufficient to constitute probable cause for . . . arrest on the illegal possession and use charge. See U.S. v. King, 305 F. Supp. 630 (1969); People v. Erb, 128 Ill. App. 2d 126 , 261 N.E.2d 431 (1970).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Stephenson
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.