People v. Gale’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably People v. Ibarra (1963), 3 Cal. 3d 807 - People v. Superior Court (1970)
3 federal appellate · 128 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · United States v. Di Re · United States v. Jeffers
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since all of the reasons that compelled us to adopt the exclusionary rule are applicable whenever evidence is obtained in violation of constitutional guarantees, such evidence is inadmissible whether or not it was obtained in violation of the particular defendant's constitutional rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor, and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search.... [T]hose lawfully within the country, entitled to use the public highways, have a right to free passage without interruption or search unless there is known to a competent official authorized to search, probable cause for believing that their vehicles are carrying contraband or illegal merchandise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Since an automobile may readily be moved from place to place, its search without a warrant is not unreasonable if the officer has reasonable cause to believe it is carrying contraband.” (People v. Gale, 46 Cal.2d 253, 255 [1] [ 294 P.2d 13 ].) People v. Martin, 46 Cal.2d 106, 108 [2] [ 293 P.2d 52 ] recognizes the same policy.”
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.