People v. McGee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying the “emergency” exception to the warrant requirement to a police officer’s entry into a residence in order to investigate a “strong foul odor” of decomposing flesh as “the odor may have been caused by rotting flesh of a living person after severe burns or other injury”
• warrantless entry of residence authorized because of uncertainty of what officers would find upon entering residence based upon odor and general condi- tion of house as seen through windows

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Coulter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-06-26· cited 139×
• Smock v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-03-20· cited 24×
• Todd McGee v. Donald Bauer, Individually, David Bieniasz, Individually, and Village of Lombard
  Seventh Circuit· 1992-02-14· cited 23×
• State v. Boisselle
  Washington Supreme Court· 2019-09-12· cited 21×
• People v. Speer
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-06-22· cited 16×
• People v. Molnar
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-11-09· cited 9×
• People v. Sorice
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-05-05· cited 8×
• State v. Samuolis
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-08-09· cited 6×
• State v. Larry Coulter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2000-10-17
• State v. DeMarco
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2014-04-22
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-02-28

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Lewis L. Wayne v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1963-04-04· cited 479×
• People v. Tisler
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-09-20· cited 446×
• People v. Hoskins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 154×
• People v. Stout
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-04-19· cited 125×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-03-25· cited 89×
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-02-24· cited 76×
• State v. Epperson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1978-09-12· cited 67×
• People v. Koniecki
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-07-24· cited 43×
• People v. Brooks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-08-14· cited 38×
• People v. Meddows
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-09-22· cited 16×
• People v. Lovitz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-06-28· cited 14×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-04-30· cited 10×