166 Ill. App. 3d 558 - People v. Pierson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 240 Ill. App. 3d 470 - People v. Maldonado (1992), 183 Ill. App. 3d 785 - People v. Hattery (1989)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Brown v. Illinois
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an important factor in the attenuation analysis,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one could question the wisdom of requiring police to go through the formality of releasing [the defendant] only to rearrest him outside the jailhouse door.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel has been trying to keep the whole truth from you ... And has in fact not presented an entire picture of what happened that night.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierson v. O'Leary
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.