455 So. 2d 1024 - Phoenix v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 147 Ill. 2d 379 - People v. Lahr (1992), 167 Ill. App. 3d 42 - People v. O'CONNOR (1988)
30 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 United States v. Monton · Williams v. State · Alexander v. Martin · United States v. Ible · Collins v. State
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A private citizen [has a] ... right to arrest a person who commits a felony in his presence, or to arrest a person where a felony has been committed and where the arresting citizen has probable cause to believe, and does believe the person arrested to be guilty. [Emphasis added.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“applies only to prevent law enforcement officials from using the powers of their office to observe unlawful activity or gain access to evidence not available to a private citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Furr“law enforcement officials, when they are outside their jurisdictions, should not be any less capable ..., nor should they have any greater power ... than private citizens.”
1 later decision 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.