69 Cal. 2d 550 - People v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 3 district · 128 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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hen the police have probable cause to arrest one party, and when they reasonably mistake a second party for the first party, then the arrest of the second party is a valid arrest.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boris Poliksza v. United States of America Secret Service Agent, Charles Brewster · Martinez v. City of Chi.

2. “[T]he officers were justified in concluding that Stevens had the authority over his home that he purported to have, and there was nothing unreasonable in their acting accordingly. In this proceeding we are not concerned with enforcing defendant’s rights under the law of trespass and landlord and tenant but with discouraging unreasonable activity on the part of law enforcement officers. * * * [Wjhen * * * the officers have acted in good faith with the consent and at the request of a home owner in conducting a search, evidence so obtained cannot be excluded merely because the officers may have made a reasonable mistake as to the extent of the owner’s authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ferguson v. State

3. “[A] search is not unreasonable if made with the consent of a third party whom the police reasonably and in good faith believe has authority to consent to their search....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1 Cal. 3d 404 - People v. McGrew