2 Cal. 3d 1017 - People v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 542 - People v. Rogers (1978), 34 Cal. 3d 777 - Wilson v. Superior Court (1983)
11 federal appellate · 170 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · 67 Cal. 2d 365 - People v. Lara · People v. Hamilton · 2 Cal. 3d 659 - Remers v. Superior Court
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough an officer may make an arrest based on information received through `official channels,' the prosecution is required to show that the officer who originally furnished the information had probable cause to believe that the suspect committed a felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled that while it may be perfectly reasonable for officers in the field to make arrests on the basis of information furnished to them by other officers, `when it comes to justifying the total police activity in a court, the People must prove that the source of the information is something other than the imagination of an officer who does not become a witness.' ( People v. Adkins, 273 Cal. App.2d 196 -198 ...; People v. Lara, 67 Cal.2d 365 , 374 ...; People v. Rice, 253 Cal. App.2d 789 , 792 ...; People v. Pease, 242 Cal. App.2d 442 , 448-450 ...; People v. Harvey, 156 Cal. App.2d 516 ....) To hold otherwise would permit the manufacture of reasonable grounds for arrest within a police department by one officer transmitting information purportedly known by him to another officer who did not know such information, without establishing under oath how the information had in fact been obtained by the former officer. (Cf. People v. Adkins, supra, 273 Cal. App.2d 196, 198 ; People v. Harvey, supra, 156 Cal. App.2d 516, 523 [ 319 P.2d 689 ].) `If this were so, every utterance of a police officer would instantly and automatically acquire the dignity of official information; "reasonable cause”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because `the informed and deliberate determinations of magistrates empowered to issue warrants ... are to be preferred over the hurried action of officers ...' a greater showing of probable cause is required to justify an arrest without a warrant than to justify a search pursuant to a warrant. [Citations.]”
1 later decision 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.