183 Ill. 2d 16 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 196 Ill. 2d 425 - People v. Sorenson (2001), 194 Ill. 2d 186 - People v. Chapman (2000)
4 federal appellate · 42 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. Krull · Wilson v. Arkansas · Richards v. Wisconsin · United States v. Ramirez · 175 Ill. 2d 60 - People v. Krueger
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have a reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing their presence, under the particular circumstances, would be dangerous or futile, or that it would inhibit the effective investigation of the crime by, for example, allowing the destruction of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“firearms or explosives in the building in an area where they are accessible to any occupant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this is simply too high a price for our citizens to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ward
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.