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Illinois v. Gates Et Ux.’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
11
cited 11 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
May 1991
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Weeks v. United States · Picard v. Connor · Whitney v. People of State of California

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]hether the rule requiring the exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment ... should to any extent be modified, so as, for example, not to require the exclusion of evidence obtained in the reasonable brief that the search and seizure at issue was consistent with the Fourth Amendment. Illinois v. Gates, 459 U.S. 1028 , 103 S.Ct. 436 , 74 L.Ed.2d 595 (1982).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'The Court has consistently refused to decide federal constitutional issues raised here for the first time on review of state court decisions. . . .'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “[T]here is no impediment to presenting a new argument as an alternative basis for affirming the decision below”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.