Petersen v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2021
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Payton v. New York · United States v. Matlock · Illinois v. Rodriguez · Stoner 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An apparent authority analysis begins by conceding that the consent obtained by police is legally invalid because the consenting third party lacks sufficient authority over the property to consent to a search.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'of reasonable caution' ... [would believe] that the consenting party had authority over the premises [.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“apparent authority is not authority at all, but merely the appearance of authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.