People v. Brite’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently July 1979 · most notably 9 Cal. 3d 662 - People v. Uhlemann (1973), People v. West (1956)
8 federal appellate · 127 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 People v. Cohen · People v. Hall · Davis v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. · 74 Cal. App. 726 - Murphy v. Murray
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A peace-officer may make an arrest in obedience to a warrant delivered to him, or may, without a warrant, arrest a person: “1. For a public offense committed or attempted in his presence. “3. When a felony has in fact been committed, and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it 1 ‘5. At night, when there is reasonable cause to believe that he has committed a felony.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Probable cause is a suspicion founded upon circumstances sufficiently strong to warrant a reasonable man in the belief that the charge is true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Moore
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.