39 Ill. 2d 489 - The PEOPLE v. Hester’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 294 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 297 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim (1972), 72 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Murphy (1978)
3 federal appellate · 294 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brinegar v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Draper v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
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 297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“) which must be met when police act upon”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We have said that reasonable cause’ to make an arrest without first obtaining a warrant, means .something less than evidence which would result in a conviction (People v. Jones, 38 Ill.2d 427, 431 ), and the absence of a warrant may justifiably be made to depend upon ‘factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians act’ (Brinegar v. United States, 338 U.S. 160, 175 , 93 L.Ed. 1879 , 69 S.Ct. 1302 ; People v. Pitts, 26 Ill.2d 395, 399 .)””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"He [Dr. Haines, psychiatrist] was of the opinion that anything defendant told a psychiatrist in an examination made for the purpose of determining his legal sanity would be self-serving and unreliable. This finds support in common sense and in People v. Hester, 39 Ill.2d 489 , 237 N.E.2d 466 , `* * * a doctor who examines a patient merely for the purpose of qualifying as a witness ordinarily may not testify as to his medical opinions based upon subjective symptoms described by the patient because of the absence from this relationship of the normal trustworthiness accompanying symptomatic descriptions by a patient to a treating physician.'"”
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.