Gallmeyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2018
21 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 Katz v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Mincey v. Arizona · Michigan v. Tyler · Smith v. Crouse
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The police must have reasonable grounds to believe that there is an emergency at hand and an immediate need for their assistance for the protection of life or property. (2) The search must not be primarily motivated by intent to arrest [a person] and seize evidence. (3) There must be some reasonable basis, approximating probable cause, to associate the emergency with the area or place to be searched. 7”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`emergency aid' ordinarily requires `true necessity [] that is, an imminent and substantial threat to life, health or property.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[p]erhaps the most commonly cited statement of the doctrine.”
2 later decisions 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.