People v. Bustamonte’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1981 · most notably Schneckloth v. Bustamonte (1973), 5 Cal. 3d 258 - Blair v. Pitchess (1971)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Chapman v. State of California · Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Griffin v. California
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic premise behind the California rule was stated in People v. MacIntosh [264 Cal.App.2d 701, 705-06, 70 Cal.Rptr. 667]: `When permission is sought from a person of ordinary intelligence the very fact that consent is given * * * carries the implication that the alternative of a refusal existed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether in a particular case an apparent consent was in fact voluntarily given or was in submission to an express or implied assertion of authority, is a question of fact to be determined in the light of all the circumstances.”
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.