People v. Chimel’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006 · most notably Chimel v. California (1969), 71 Cal. 2d 1096 - People v. Edwards (1969)
4 federal appellate · 105 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 Ker v. State of California · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Agnello v. United States · Marron v. United States · Giordenello v. United States
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To invalidate the arrest here solely because the arresting officer first obtained a warrant supported by a constitutionally insufficient complaint would not further the policies of the Fourth Amendment but would subvert its preference for arrest and searches conducted pursuant to warrants." People v. Chimel, 68 Cal.2d 436 , 67 Cal.Rptr. 421 , 439 P.2d 333, 337 (1968).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legality of an arrest, however, cannot depend exclusively upon the validity of the warrant pursuant to which the arrest is executed since an arrest without a warrant may stand if based on probable cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cloman
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.