39 Ill. App. 3d 661 - People v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably State v. Hannuksela (1990), 131 Ill. App. 3d 887 - People v. Krankel (1985)
25 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 6 Ill. App. 3d 879 - People v. Burton · 5 Ill. 2d 409 - People v. Palumbo · Fraser v. United States · People v. Daghita · Fraser v. Barton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ° ° 0 [N] either may testify as to any communication or admission made by either of them to the other or as to any conversation between them during coverture * “ Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 51, par. 5.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f this policy of affording protection to the serenity of the marital relationship were to be considered in isolation, a strong argument could be advanced justifying a broad construction [of the marital communications privilege]. However, to give such broad construction to the term “communication,” would burden another important social policy — to-wit, one concerned with assuring that a jury in a criminal trial have access to all relevant facts. ⅞ * * “[A] loyal spouse should not, in our view, become a partner in crime with the blessing of the law bestowed through a strained construction of the statute which is said to be supported by a policy of promoting marital bliss.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gianakos““We had been questioning the defendant, and Mrs. Simpson came into the room and sat down in a chair. I was sitting on the desk and the others were sitting on chairs, and either Mr. Price or Mr. Brown, I don’t remember which one, said, ‘Now, Ann, tell us what he told you;’ and she said that he came to the trailer on the morning in question and said that he had shot Gwen and the defendant then spoke up and said, ‘Yes, but I told you later I was lying. ’ ” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision 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.