People v. Payton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2018 · most notably Payton v. New York (1980), 81 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Abney (1980)
8 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . substantial difference between the intrusion which attends an entry for the purpose of searching the premises and that which results from an entry for the purpose of making an arrest, and [a] significant difference in the governmental interest in achieving the objective of the intrusion in the two instances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““that an entry made for the purpose of effecting a felony arrest within the home of the person to be arrested by a police officer who has entered without permission of the owner, if based on probable cause, is not necessarily violative of the constitutional right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures even though the arresting officer has not obtained a warrant and there are no exigent circumstances.” 408 N.Y.S.2d at 396 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the first place the label 'inevitable discovery’ is inaccurate and therefore misleading. The doctrine does not call for certitude as the literal meaning of the adjective ‘inevitable’ would suggest. What is required is that there be a very high degree of probability that the evidence in question would have been obtained independently of the tainted source.”
1 later decision 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.