24 Cal. 3d 357 - People v. Zelinski’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 146 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 7 Cal. 4th 1 - Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn. (1994), 24 Cal. 3d 579 - Cervantez v. J. C. Penney Co. (1979)
4 federal appellate · 146 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 · Chimel v. California · Weeks v. United States · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Preston v. United States
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person does not need to be an officer of the state to act under color of law and therefore be responsible, along with such officers, for actions prohibited to state officials when such actions are engaged in under color of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sapper · DRC v. State“Id. at 1006. The Zelinski court explained that the search exceeded lawful authority, it was nevertheless an integral part of the exercise of sovereignty allowed by the state to private citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We are mindful, however, of the increasing reliance placed upon private security personnel by local law enforcement authorities for the prevention of crime and enforcement of the criminal law and the increasing threat to privacy rights posed thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Santiago
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.