People v. Altman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably People v. Blehm (1999), Mendez v. People (1999)
28 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 Illinois v. Gates · United States v. Leon · United States v. Hove · 106 Wash. 2d 206 - State v. Huft · United States v. Robinson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely unreasonable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Randolph · People v. Gall“a person of reasonable caution to believe that contraband or evidence of criminal activity is located at the place to be searched.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[The fact that a magistrate acted favorably upon a warrant request is of no moment in the determination of whether the officer acted with objective reasonableness because the question of reasonableness is to be judged as of the time of warrant application and thus without consideration of the fact that the magistrate thereafter issued a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Miller
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.