111 Ill. 2d 128 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989), 232 Ill. 2d 246 - People v. Jackson (2009)
5 federal appellate · 105 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Illinois v. Gates · Brinegar v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`In dealing with probable cause, * * * we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knowledge of facts which would lead a reasonable man to believe that a crime has occurred and that it has been committed by the defendant.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where there is uncertainty as to whether a crime has been committed, the privacy rights may be given more consideration. ( People v. Reynolds (1983), 94 Ill.2d 160, 166 [ 68 Ill.Dec. 122 , 445 N.E.2d 766 ]; People v. Lippert (1982), 89 Ill.2d 171, 179-80 [ 59 Ill.Dec. 819 , 432 N.E.2d 605 ], cert. denied (1982), 459 U.S. 841 , 74 L.Ed.2d 85 , 103 S.Ct. 92 .)”
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.