Del Vecchio v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), Watkins v. Virginia (1986)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 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 Jackson v. Denno · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Tollett v. Henderson · Woodson v. North Carolina · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“establish the truth of the confessions as a whole. Even if the plea constituted an admission of the basic facts comprising the elements of the offense charged, that admission did not necessarily extend to the truth of other aspects of the confessions. And it is the reliability of those other aspects that is at issue here because it was for them that the prosecutor is likely to have sought admission of the confessions in the first place. Had he wished only to establish petitioner's guilt of the 1965 crimes, he could have merely introduced the 1965 convictions without more.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he Illinois Supreme Court's failure to give any justification for such a radical extension of the rule [established by the Illinois cases cited above] raises serious questions as to the legitimacy of the State interest implicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.