People v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably 86 Wash. 2d 91 - State v. Helmka (1975), People v. Lindholm (1979)
27 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 Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Leary 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unreasonable to infer from the existence of one growing marijuana plant that the additional drugs and paraphenalia listed in the search warrant were present in the house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eggler“mere presence of a growing marijuana plant does not grant the police the right to make an exploratory search of everything that is contained within a house.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eggler
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.