31 Ill. 2d 597 - People v. Jeffries’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Carroll v. United States · United States v. Rabinowitz · Preston v. United States · Stoner v. California · United States v. Lefkowitz
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is obviously impossible for a warrant to be in the possession of every officer who is searching for a fugitive or who unexpectedly might find himself in a position to apprehend the fugitive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Delgado“[t]he officer need not have the warrant in his possession at the time of the arrest, but upon request he shall show the warrant to the defendant, as soon as possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Delgado
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.