People v. Murdock’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2024
20 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 189 Ill. 2d 254 - People v. Perez · 65 Ill. 2d 366 - People Ex Rel. Gibson v. Cannon
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“carefully reviewed the evidentiary record and can find no evidence presented concerning the clothing the officer wore on the day in question. Moreover, the State failed to ask the arresting officer whether he was wearing a police uniform at the time of the pursuit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the officer activated his overhead emergency lights and siren, defendant should have known that the pursuer was a police officer and the purpose of the statute would be fulfilled by upholding the conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of 59 No. 1-13-0698 an essential element of the offense is lacking in this case”
2 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.