26 Ill. 2d 210 - The PEOPLE v. Reader’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), 117 Ill. 2d 170 - People v. Brackett (1987)
3 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on McNabb v. United States · Mallory v. United States · 12 Ill. 2d 334 - The People v. Dukes · 17 Ill. 2d 486 - The PEOPLE v. Clark · 20 Ill. 2d 470 - The PEOPLE v. Oden
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““PEOPLE’S INSTRUCTION NO. 9. A person commits the crime of involuntary manslaughter who causes the death of another by acts which are performed recklessly and are likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another. PEOPLE’S INSTRUCTION NO. 10. To sustain the charge of involuntary manslaughter, the State must prove the following propositions: That the defendant performed the acts which caused the death of Edgar Henry Beach; and That the defendant performed those acts recklessly; That those acts were likely to cause death or great bodily harm. If you find from your consideration of all the evidence that each of these propositions has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, then you should find the defendant guilty. If, on the other hand, you find from your consideration of all the evidence that any of these propositions has not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, then you should find the defendant not guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The contention of the defendant that all lock-up keepers, wagon-men, or other police personnel who viewed the defendant while in custody must be called as witnesses to the voluntary nature of the confession is without merit. To compel all police personnel who ever viewed the defendant while in custody to testify as to the voluntary nature of a confession is unreasonable and not required by the test laid down in the Sammons case.””
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.