211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 293 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 311 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), 223 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Sutherland (2006)
3 federal appellate · 293 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 3831
Relies on Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois · Jones v. United States · Ornelas v. United States
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 311 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court's factual and credibility determinations are accorded great deference, and we reverse only if the findings are against the manifest weight of the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers[,] and other possessions against unreasonable searches[][and] seizures.”
3 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.