21 Cal. App. 3d 894 - People v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1993
18 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 Carroll v. United States · 1 Cal. 3d 80 - People v. Bradley · 3 Cal. 3d 807 - People v. Superior Court · 47 Cal. 2d 374 - People v. Roberts · People v. Marshall
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, we have no more than an effort to hide something from the general public. Even if the undercover officer had been sure that an object was being deposited in the bumper area, he could be no more certain that it was contraband than it was a spare set of keys to the car, or some other innocuous item. Merely reaching behind a bumper is as consistent with innocent activity as with criminal activity. (See Cunha v. Superior Court, [ supra , ] 2 Cal.3d 352, 357 ; Remers v. Superior Court, [ supra , ] 2 Cal.3d 659, 665 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Limon
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.