Gault v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Bean v. State (1964), 1 Md. App. 455 - Gaudio v. State (1967)
32 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 Mapp v. Ohio · Johnson v. United States · Felkner v. State · Hall v. State · Glaros 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But we think the search was legal for another reason. Possession of narcotics is a misdemeanor under Code (1957), Art. 27, Sec. 276 et seq., and it is settled law that an officer may arrest for a misdemeanor committed in his presence, without a warrant. Robinson v. State, 229 Md. 503 , 507 and cases cited. Officer Thomas saw enough to indicate to a reasonable man that two of the occupants of the apartment possessed narcotics, for they obviously were concealing or throwing away objects that had the look of narcotics, in an effort to avoid their discovery by the police. See Allen v. State, 229 Md. 253 , 256 and cases cited. The case of Beale v. State, 230 Md. 182 , is distinguishable on the facts, for there the officer who picked up the discarded package was a trespasser at the time, and not in the public highway. Cf. Harris v. State, 203 Md. 165 . Stanley v. State, 230 Md. 188 is also distinguishable for there the probable cause for the arrest, on which the police relied, was a report as to a suspect received over their patrol car radio, and it was not claimed that there was any evidence of a crime committed in the arresting officers’ presence. Since the search in the instant case was incident to a lawful arrest, Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643, has no bearing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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