104 Ill. App. 2d 302 - People v. McMath’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably 12 Ill. App. 3d 869 - People v. Carroll (1973), 45 Ill. 2d 33 - The PEOPLE v. McMath (1970)
48 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If, however, the testimony does establish an unfair pretrial identification, the subsequent in-court identification may nevertheless be admissible if the State shows, by clear and convincing evidence, that such in-court identification had an independent origin, arising from uninfluenced observation of the defendant."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sutton knew that there had been a robbery and had even placed the call to the police as soon as he had learned of it. When the police arrived, he had discussed the robbery with them and knew that they were investigating it.... It was a fair argument on behalf of the State that a man who knew the defendant well ... would have mentioned something to the police when given the opportunity to speak.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. State
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.