Gerchman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 1974
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Harris v. United States · Gouled v. United States · Arrowsmith v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When it is within the knowledge of the officers making the search for specific things that other things have likewise been stolen and they in the course of their legitimate search see and run into these other things clearly then it does not constitute an unreasonable search for the officers to report on the things found/’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lloyd v. State
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.