People v. Gurule’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * First, the police must be in a place where they are legitimately entitled to be. That is, the initial intrusion must be valid. Second, police cannot use the plain view doctrine as a pretext for a warrantless seizure of evidence they expect to uncover in their search. Finally, the officer seizing the evidence must have ‘good reason to believe’ that the exposed item is incriminating evidence, although it need not be ‘illegal per se.’ [citing cases]” People v. Gurule, supra.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Harding

2. “where ... the conclusion is unavoidable that seizure of evidence was part and parcel of discovering it in plain view, the warrantless seizure is valid.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Reynolds