People v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1969
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Ventresca · Willson v. Superior Court · 45 Cal. 2d 652 - People v. Boyles · People v. Carrillo · 229 Cal. App. 2d 143 - People v. Hernandez
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 information provided by an anonymous [fn. [6]] informer is relevant on the issue of reasonable cause, in the absence of some pressing emergency [citation], an arrest may not be based solely on such information [citation], and evidence must be presented to the court that would justify the conclusion that reliance on the information was reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In some cases the identity of, or past experience with, the informer may provide ... evidence [of the reliability of the information] [citations], and in others it may be supplied by similar information from other sources or by the personal observations of the police.”
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.