People v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
January 1977
most recently cited
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Mississippi · Kaufman v. United States · Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma · People v. Harris
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's palm and fingerprints were located on the window through which the murderer apparently entered the house. Such proof, not susceptible of any other explanation, pointed ineluctably to the defendant's guilt and was sufficient to exclude to a moral certainty any other reasonable hypothesis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gates v. Henderson“the almost conclusive force of the fingerprint evidence . . . (which) pointed ineluctably to the defendant's guilt . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gates v. Henderson“You better enjoy the kids while you have them. You won't have them for long.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gates v. Henderson
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.