41 Ill. 2d 1 - The People v. Denham’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably 50 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Joyner (1972), 46 Ill. 2d 177 - The People v. Hudson (1970)
57 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · 66 Cal. 2d 808 - People v. Varnum · 37 Ill. 2d 40 - The People v. McCrimmon · 39 Ill. 2d 208 - The People v. MacIas · People v. Lukoszus
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[T]he test of probable cause is whether a reasonable and prudent man in possession of the knowledge which has come to the arresting officer would believe the person to be arrested is guilty of the crime; that it is something less than evidence that would result in conviction and may be founded on hearsay evidence; that it is based upon the factual and practical considerations of everyday life upon which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.’ ” People v. Denham (1968), 41 Ill. 2d 1, 5 , 241 N.E.2d 415, 418 .”
5 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.