Stoner v. California’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
847 federal appellate · 137 district · 1,441 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,951 later decisions (79 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2025 · most notably Katz v. United States (1967), Chimel v. California (1969)
847 federal appellate · 137 district · 1,441 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Carroll v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Jones v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Weeks v. United States
Cited together with Katz v. United States · Chapman v. United States · Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Matlock · Chimel 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 2,951 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is important to bear in mind that it was the petitioner's constitutional right which was at stake here, and not the night clerk's nor the hotel's. It was a right, therefore, which only the petitioner could waive by word or deed, either directly or through an agent. It is true that the night clerk clearly and unambiguously consented to the search. But there is nothing in the record to indicate that the police had any basis whatsoever to believe that the night clerk had been authorized by the petitioner to permit the police to search the petitioner's room.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by unrealistic doctrines of 'apparent authority.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is substantially contemporaneous with the arrest and is confined to the immediate vicinity of the arrest.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.