People v. Learn’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Davis v. Washington · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · United States v. Owens · 225 Ill. 2d 246 - People v. Stechly
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The victim's] spoken testimony was not incriminating; thus, defendant was not confronted by his accuser nor given the right to rigorously test the accusation against him through cross-examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not testify at all about the charge in [the] case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]mmaterial or general background `testimony.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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