People v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 state decisions

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When any peace officer is in fresh pursuit of any alleged offender, having a warrant for his arrest-or having knowledge that such warrant has been issued, or, in the absence of an arrest warrant, when the offense was committed in the officer’s presence or the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the alleged offender has committed a criminal offense, and the alleged offender crosses a boundary line marking the territorial limit of his authority, such peace officer may pursue him beyond such boundary line and make the arrest, issue a summons and complaint, or issue a notice of penalty assessment.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Florez · People v. Vigil

2. “In cases where the police act in willful disobedience of the law, the courts have not hesitated to use their supervisory power to exclude evidence.... This Court cannot sanction willful and recurrent violations of the law, and thus, future violations of the statutes governing peace officers' authority to arrest may trigger application of the exclusionary rule and require suppression of evidence obtained in the course of an extraterritorial arrest.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re J.O. · People v. Vigil

3. “(1) A peace officer may arrest a person when: ... (b) Any crime has been or is being committed by such person in his presence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Florez · People v. Triantos