315 Ill. App. 3d 772 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Ross · New York v. Belton · United States v. Robinson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer's authority to investigate a traffic violation may not become a subterfuge in order to obtain other evidence merely based on the officer's suspicion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A stop for a minor traffic violation is something very different from a lawful custodial arrest”
1 later decision 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.