62 Ill. 2d 273 - People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
191 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 89 Ill. 2d 352 - People v. Willingham (1982), 89 Ill. 2d 171 - People v. Lippert (1982)
191 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Draper v. United States · 55 Ill. 2d 501 - People v. Clay · 19 Ill. 2d 11 - The People v. Watkins · 41 Ill. 2d 170 - The People v. Wright
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Whether or not probable cause for an arrest exists in a particular case depends upon the totality of the facts and circumstances known to the officers when the arrest was made. [Citations.] In deciding the question of probable cause in a particular case the courts deal with probabilities and are not disposed to be unduly technical. These probabilities are the factual and practical considerations of everyday fife on which reasonable men, not legal technicians, act. [Citations.]’ Also it is proper to recognize in judging whether there was probable cause that ‘[pjolice officers often must act upon a quick appraisal of the data before them, and the reasonableness of their conduct must be judged on the basis of their responsibility to prevent crime and to catch criminals.’ [Citation.]” (People v. Robinson (1976), 62 Ill. 2d 273, 276-77 , 342 N.E.2d 356, 358 .)”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.