44 Cal. 2d 459 - People v. Berger’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently June 1984 · most notably Palma v. U.S. Industrial Fasteners, Inc. (1984), 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County (1966)
102 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 Johnson v. United States · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · McDonald v. United States
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the experience of the federal courts indicates that there are no compelling reasons why an exception to the general rule should be made in the case of illegally obtained evidence. . . . The issues involved will ordinarily be no more time consuming or complicated than those presented to the trial court when it must rule, for example, on the admissibility of confessions, business records, or evidence claimed to be privileged, or on the qualifications of expert or other witnesses.”
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.