People v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 355 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 371 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 1 Cal. 3d 80 - People v. Bradley (1969), 7 Cal. 3d 710 - People v. Sirhan (1972)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 355 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. United States · Gilbert v. California · Ker v. State of California · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 371 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[6] Of importance to the case at bar is the discussion of plain view found in Erickson . In holding that the contents of a locked suitcase were not in plain view, we alluded to Justice Traynor's statement that [i]t is inherently impossible for the contents of a closed opaque container to be in plain view regardless of the size of the container or the material it is made of. A search of the container is necessary to disclose its contents. [7] Of particular significance here is the rejection in Erickson of”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a search will reveal contraband ... does not justify a search without a warrant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`imminent destruction, removal, or concealment of the property intended to be seized'”
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.