39 Ill. 2d 553 - The PEOPLE v. Murdock’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 92 Ill. 2d 490 - People v. Kline (1982), State v. Hatcher (1970)
3 federal appellate · 56 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Johnson v. State of New Jersey · Mempa v. Rhay · Haynes v. Washington · Giles v. State of Maryland
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We agree that the front and profile views of the defendant in the photographs might very well suggest to the jury that they were “mug” shots taken for police files and, since there was no probative purpose for their admission into evidence find that the photographs were erroneously admitted.””
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.