Rakas v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3,188 federal appellate · 792 district · 5,115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11,459 later decisions (122 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), United States v. Leon (1984)
3,188 federal appellate · 792 district · 5,115 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Warth v. Seldin
Cited together with Katz v. United States · United States v. Salvucci · Jones v. United States · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Terry v. Ohio
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 11,459 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who is aggrieved by an illegal search and seizure only through the introduction of damaging evidence secured by a search of a third person's premises or property has not had any of his Fourth Amendment rights infringed.”
654 later decisions quote this exact passage“Fourth Amendment rights are personal rights which ... may not be vicariously asserted.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“too broad a gauge for measurement of Fourth Amendment rights.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.