136 Ill. App. 3d 708 - People v. Melchor’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 157 Ill. App. 3d 764 - People v. Holman (1987), 147 Ill. App. 3d 206 - People v. Jurczak (1986)
29 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 Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Weingarden v. United States · United States v. Slade · 79 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Spicer · 83 Ill. App. 3d 57 - People v. Ford
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established in Illinois that sound recordings, which are otherwise competent, material and relevant, are [admissible into] evidence if a proper foundation has been established to assure the authenticity and reliability of the recordings.”
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.