119 Ill. App. 2d 116 - People v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 69 Ill. App. 3d 906 - People v. Walters (1979), 53 Ill. App. 3d 395 - People v. Smith (1977)
35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[0]ne can stand off in the wings, as it were, and yet be held accountable for the action center stage. What [defendant] told the police was indeed a confession as we have just defined it. There is a reasonable inference from what he told the police officer that he committed the crime with which he was charged. * * * The facts he recounted to the police reasonably and directly implied guilt, hence the characterization [of the statement as a confession] was proper.””
6 later decisions 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.