People v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an article possessed by a defendant is discarded as a spontaneous reaction to police conduct which is illegal, no abandonment will be found and the article will be inadmissible (citation omitted). However, if the discard is an ‘independent act involving a calculated risk,’ abandonment will be found and the article is admissible even though the police conduct which preceded the discard may have been illegal.” People v. White, supra, at 516-17.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawkins v. State
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.