203 Ill. 2d 26 - People v. Stehman’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 376 Ill. App. 3d 511 - People v. Allen (2007), 232 Ill. 2d 285 - People v. Bailey (2009)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · New York v. Belton · Michigan v. Long
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hen a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A]n officer making a lawful custodial arrest may search the person of the arrestee and the area within his immediate control, into which the arrestee might reach in order to obtain a weapon or destroy evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`The occupants of a vehicle cannot avoid the consequences of Belton merely by stepping outside of the vehicle as the officers approach. [Citation.]' Thomas [ v. State ], 761 So.2d [1010,] 1014 [(Fla.1999)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.