285 Ill. App. 3d 802 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2024
21 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 Malloy v. Hogan · 68 Ill. 2d 158 - People v. Wipfler · 149 Ill. 2d 423 - People v. Melock · 174 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Haynes · 169 Ill. 2d 409 - People v. Oaks
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o constitute an offer of leniency that renders a confession inadmissible, a police statement must be coupled with a suggestion of a specific benefit that will follow if the defendant confesses .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'if [he] told the truth that everything would go right on [him] and stuff like that' " was a statement for defendant to tell the truth that did not render his confession involuntary); People v. Eckles , 128 Ill. App. 3d 276 , 277-78, 83 Ill.Dec. 497 , 470 N.E.2d 623 (1984) (police statement to defendant that it would be in his best interest to get the truth out as fast as possible and that if defendant told the truth and cooperated, the police would inform the state's attorney and testify in court as to defendant's cooperation was not promise of leniency because it was open-ended with no promise of a specific result); Johnson , 285 Ill. App. 3d at 806 , 809-10 , 221 Ill.Dec. 51 , 674 N.E.2d 844 (telling defendant that if he gave a statement and told the truth the judge will see he cooperated and " 'might take it into consideration' " was "not a promise by the police that they would do anything on defendant's behalf”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, a confession is not per se inadmissible even where promises or suggestions of leniency have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Macias
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.