People v. Kitchens’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 216 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Hill v. California (1971), 71 Cal. 2d 1096 - People v. Edwards (1969)
3 federal appellate · 216 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 McNabb v. United States · United States v. Di Re · 44 Cal. 2d 434 - People v. Cahan · Wiborg v. United States · 45 Cal. 2d 755 - People v. Martin
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'would place an unreasonable burden on defendants to anticipate unforeseen changes in the law and encourage fruitless objections in other situations where defendants might hope that an established rule of evidence would be changed on appeal.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
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.