114 Ill. 2d 450 - People v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 136 Ill. 2d 27 - People v. Reid (1990), 125 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Evans (1988)
73 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 Lego v. Twomey · Brown v. State of Mississippi · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 41 Ill. 2d 102 - The PEOPLE v. Jackson · 4 Ill. 2d 261 - People v. La Frana
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The test of voluntariness is whether the statement was made freely, voluntarily and without compulsion or inducement of any sort, or whether the defendant's will was overcome at the time [she or] he confessed.'”
3 later decisions 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.