285 Ill. App. 3d 981 - People v. Barnwell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2022
14 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 75 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Roberts · 63 Ill. 2d 534 - People v. Bratcher · 171 Ill. 2d 207 - People v. Thomas
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under Chambers , a state’s hearsay rule may under proper circumstances be required to yield to the right of a defendant to defend himself when the hearsay is critical to the presentation of his defense. [Citations omitted.] However, a hearsay statement is neither critical nor even necessary to a defendant’s defense where the defendant is the declarant of the statement and is available to testify in his own behalf Under such circumstances, the statement is properly excluded under the prevalent hearsay rules. [Citation omitted.] Moreover, under Chambers , in addition to being critical, the hearsay must also be reliable. [Citations omitted.] Here, where the defendant himself is the declarant, it is difficult to conceive how his unverified, uncross-examined, self-serving statements to the police could meet the test of reliability which Chambers clearly requires. [Citation omitted.] Therefore, defendant cannot hope to use his statements to the police in place of becoming an in-court witness on his own behalf.” (Emphasis added.) 285 Ill. App. 3d at 990 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stano
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.