People v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Chambers v. Maroney · Alderman v. United States · 45 Cal. 2d 755 - People v. Martin · 4 Cal. 3d 699 - Mozzetti 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the search cannot be upheld for the reason given by the officer, if in fact reasonable cause for the search existed, the statement of the officer that he based his authority to search on a ground subsequently disapproved by the Supreme Court does not vitiate the validity of the search if other valid ground for the search existed.”
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.