Bartley v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2024
23 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · California v. Ciraolo · Florida v. Riley · Comfort v. California
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constitutional error is harmless when the evidence properly received against a defendant is so overwhelming that the constitutional violation was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a valid search warrant may issue if the lawfully obtained evidence, considered by itself, establishes probable cause to issue the warrant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hebert · People v. Nelson“Probable cause exists when an affidavit for a search warrant alleges sufficient facts to warrant a person of reasonable caution to believe that contraband or evidence of criminal activity is located at the place to be searched.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Nelson
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.