51 Ill. 2d 208 - People v. Steptore’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably 162 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. Cruz (1994), 79 Ill. 2d 341 - People v. Friedman (1980)
70 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 Massiah v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · 47 Ill. 2d 23 - The PEOPLE v. Zepeda · People v. Pfanschmidt
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(2) A law enforcement officer who takes a minor into custody without a warrant under Section 4-4 shall, if the minor is not released, immediately make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the minor's care or the person with whom the minor resides that the minor has been taken into custody and where the minor is being held; and the law enforcement officer shall without unnecessary delay take the minor to the nearest juvenile police officer designated for such purposes in the county of venue." (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 37, par. 804-5(2).)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The rule is that a witness may be impeached by showing that he has made contradictory statements, but he cannot be thus impeached as to collateral matters. “Since the reason of the rule excludes witnesses whose testimony would introduce new issues over and above those which already might be entered into, the test of collateralness should naturally be, could the fact for which they are offered in contradiction have been shown in evidence for any purpose independently of this contradiction?” [Citations.] * ° ” People v. Steptore (1972), 51 Ill. 2d 208, 216-217 , 281 N.E.2d 642, 646 (citing People v. Pfanschmidt (1914), 262 Ill. 411 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(f) Plea Discussions, Plea Agreements, Pleas of Guilty Inadmissible Under Certain Circumstances. If a plea discussion does not result in a plea of guilty, or if a plea of guilty is not accepted or is withdrawn, or if judgment on a plea of guilty is reversed on direct or collateral review, neither the plea discussion nor any resulting agreement, plea, or judgment shall be admissible against the defendant in any criminal proceeding.” 73 Ill. 2d R. 402(f).”
1 later decision 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.