168 Ill. App. 3d 873 - People v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman (2004), 211 Ill. App. 3d 305 - People v. Buchanan (1991)
61 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 Strickland v. Washington · Katz v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Cronic · Texas v. Brown
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[P]lain view alone is never enough to justify the warrantless seizure of evidence. This is simply a corollary of the familiar principle discussed above, that no amount of probable cause can justify a warrantless search or seizure absent 'exigent circumstances.’ Incontrovertible testimony of the senses that an incriminating object is on premises belonging to a criminal suspect may establish the fullest possible measure of probable cause. But even where the object is contraband, this Court has repeatedly stated and enforced the basic rule that the police may not enter and make a warrantless seizure.” (Emphasis in original.) Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 468 , 29 L. Ed. 2d 564, 584 , 91 S. Ct. 2022, 2039 (1971) (opinion of Stewart, J., joined by Douglas, Brennan, and Marshall, JJ.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exercise of judgment, discretion, trial tactics or strategy even where appellate counsel or the reviewing court might have handled the matter differently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
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.