78 Ill. 2d 511 - People v. Ouellette’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 175 Ill. 2d 60 - People v. Krueger (1996), United States v. Moore (1992)
8 federal appellate · 99 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 · Ker v. State of California · Sedillo v. United States · Miller v. United States · Dalia 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not, however, agree with the State that the existence of narcotics is, in itself, an exigent circumstance justifying such an intrusion into a defendant’s or a suspect’s premises.” 78 Ill. 2d 511, 516 , 401 N.E.2d 507, 509 .”
1 later decision 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.