State v. Lingle’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Pribil (1986), State v. Purdum (2009)
2 district · 35 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 State v. Montgomery · State v. Morgan · Phillips v. State · Forester v. California Adult Authority · Pierson v. Grant
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even if the complaint be regarded as insufficient or defective, it was amendable at any stage of the proceedings in the district court, but would not support a challenge for the first time on appeal. . . . [I]f a defect is amendable, [the complaint] will be held sufficient on appeal in the absence of objection in the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`subject to the search of his personal and real property at any time, day or night, by any law enforcement or probation officer without the issuance of a search warrant.'”
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.