6 Cal. 3d 239 - People v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 208 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 12 Cal. 3d 731 - People v. Hill (1974), 13 Cal. 3d 528 - People v. Brisendine (1975)
4 federal appellate · 208 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 Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · 59 Cal. 2d 713 - People v. Haven · 1 Cal. 3d 658 - People v. Collins · 3 Cal. 3d 720 - Horack v. Superior Court
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, the reasonableness of an officer's conduct is dependent upon the existence of facts available to him at the moment of the search or seizure which would warrant a man of reasonable caution in the belief that the action taken was appropriate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The appropriate standard under the community caretaking exception is one of reasonableness: Given the known facts, would a prudent and reasonable officer have perceived a need to act in the proper discharge of his or her community earetaking functions? ... [A]s in other contexts, “in determining whether the officer acted reasonably, due weight must be given not to his unpartieularized suspicions or ‘hunches,’ but to the reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in the light of his experience; in other words, he must be able to point to specific and articu-lable facts from which he concluded that his action was necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Organ“A gun on a table or in a drawer in front of one who is arrested can be as dangerous to the arresting officer as one concealed in the clothing of the person arrested. There is ample justification, therefore, for a search of the arrestee’s person and the area “within his immediate control” — construing that phrase to mean the area from within which he might gain possession of a weapon or destructible evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rodriquez v. State
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.