Lee v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
481 federal appellate · 29 district · 1,075 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,976 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Crawford v. Washington (2004), Bourjaily v. United States (1987)
481 federal appellate · 29 district · 1,075 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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 Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
Cited together with Ohio v. Roberts · Bruton v. United States · Idaho v. Wright · Pointer v. Texas · Cruz v. New York
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 1,976 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“particularized guarantees of trustworthiness”
166 later decisions quote this exact passage“defines too large a class for meaningful Confrontation Clause analysis.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”
8 later decisions 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.