People v. Gall’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2020
21 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · Whren v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the usual question for a reviewing court is whether the issuing magistrate had a 'substantial basis' for issuing the search warrant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Miller · People v. Cox“may search the location authorized by the warrant, including any containers at that location that are reasonably likely to contain items described in the warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Brown“container rationale is equally applicable to nontraditional, technological 'containers' that are reasonably likely to hold information in less tangible forms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Neiss
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.