People v. Bobo’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 56 Ill. 2d 560 - People v. Queen (1974), Shy v. State (1975)
8 federal appellate · 21 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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We will not condone conduct which directly or indirectly restricts the exercise of the constitutional right to remain silent in the face of accusation. ‘Non-utterances’ are not statements. The fact that a witness did not make a statement may be shown only to contradict his assertion that he did.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he fact that a witness did not make a statement may be shown only to contradict his assertion that he did.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Boyd
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.