R. D. Pendleton v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden, San Quentin Prison’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 1074 · 1968
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1984
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Ker v. State of 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The seizure was not incident to Pendleton’s arrest earlier that day and was not pursuant to a search warrant. The view of the narcotics through the window may have provided probable cause to obtain a search warrant but, since no exigent circumstances were shown to exist, such view did not authorize a seizure without such a warrant or consent, [at 1077]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. O'Herron
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.