7 Cal. 3d 282 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 22 Cal. 3d 67 - People v. Cook (1978), Good v. Dauphin County Social Services for Children & Youth (1989)
4 federal appellate · 98 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 Katz v. United States · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Vale v. Louisiana · Badillo v. Superior Court
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he exception must not be permitted to swallow the rule: in the absence of a showing of true necessity--that is, an imminent and substantial threat to life, health, or property--the constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy must prevail.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“suddenly fainted, fallen sick, or otherwise become incapacitated to the point of rendering her unable to care for her daughter and in need of police assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““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 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.