128 Ill. App. 3d 276 - People v. Eckles’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2022
19 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 32 Ill. App. 3d 765 - People v. Ruegger · 55 Ill. 2d 142 - People v. Hubbard · People v. Klyczek · 86 Ill. App. 3d 762 - People v. Noe · People v. Heide
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he natural effect on the minds of the [suspects] of such statements by the officers would be to cause them to feel that they were being advised to speak, and that if they told the truth they would be taken to the State's attorney's office and allowed to make a statement, and then whatever he did for them would be better for them on account of their telling the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]lthough it is undisputed that the police officers made no definite promises to defendant, defendant's version of the conversation was that the police officers conveyed to him the impression that they would 'go to bat' for him on such matters as a recognizance bond and probation if he confessed to everything.”
1 later decision 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.