65 Cal. App. 3d 341 - People v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 542 - People v. Rogers (1978), Good v. Dauphin County Social Services for Children & Youth (1989)
2 federal appellate · 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 · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Vale v. Louisiana · 16 Cal. 3d 263 - People v. Ramey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Necessity often justifies an action which would otherwise constitute a trespass, as where the act is prompted by the motive of preserving life or property and reasonably appears to the actor to be necessary for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers
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.