91 Ill. 2d 359 - People v. Eichelberger’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 98 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Yates (1983), 207 Ill. 2d 231 - People v. Lampitok (2003)
82 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 Payton v. New York · Johnson v. United States · 81 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Abney
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the officers reasonably believed that a felony was being committed in their presence demanded prompt police action and constituted an exigent circumstance which justified the warrantless entry into the hotel room and the arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.