19 Ill. 2d 11 - The People v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 7 Cal. 3d 186 - People v. Superior Court (1972), 54 Ill. 2d 401 - People v. Cole (1973)
6 federal appellate · 163 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Carroll v. United States · Weeks v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · People v. Blodgett
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" * * * police officers often must act upon a quick appraisal of the data before them, and the reasonableness of their conduct must be judged on the basis of their responsibility to prevent crime and to catch criminals.””
14 later decisions 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.