63 Ill. App. 3d 554 - People v. Elders’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2021
17 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · United States v. Matlock · Sedillo v. United States · 41 Ill. 2d 25 - The PEOPLE v. Haskell · 58 Ill. 2d 83 - People v. Stacey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is only where the record affirmatively establishes `joint occupancy' or `equal rights to possession' that one spouse's consent to a search is binding against the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Davis
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.