Illinois v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
1,142 federal appellate · 279 district · 1,781 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,304 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Florida v. Jimeno (1991), Kyllo v. United States (2001)
1,142 federal appellate · 279 district · 1,781 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 · Illinois v. Gates · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst
Cited together with United States v. Matlock · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Terry v. Ohio · Payton v. New York · Katz v. United States
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 4,304 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mutual use of the property by persons generally having joint access or control for most purposes.”
280 later decisions quote this exact passage“warrantless entry is valid when based upon the consent of a third party whom the police, at the time of the entry, reasonably believe to possess common authority over the premises, but who in fact does not.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause....”
6 later decisions 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.