62 Ill. 2d 261 - People v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1993 · most notably 67 Ill. 2d 308 - People v. Campbell (1977), 68 Ill. 2d 287 - People v. Blitz (1977)
45 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 Terry v. Ohio · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Rabinowitz · Gustafson v. Florida
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has long been established that the constitutional safeguards contained in section 6 of article II of the Illinois constitution, and the fourth amendment to the United States constitution, do not prohibit all searches made without a warrant, but only those which are unreasonable, and that the determinations of the reasonableness of any given search must depend upon the facts in the particular situation. (United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56 , 94 L. Ed. 653 ; People v. Watkins, 19 Ill. 2d 11 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. McGee · People v. Lawson
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.