51 Ill. App. 3d 800 - People v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably 119 Ill. 2d 69 - People v. Foster (1987), 199 Ill. 2d 28 - People v. Ellis (2002)
4 federal appellate · 23 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 United States v. Bedore · 70 Wis. 2d 22 - Peters v. State · United States v. Goldfine · Timmerman v. Brown · United States v. Stoffey
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[tjruthful answers that the shooting was the act of an accomplice would necessarily inculpate defendants on the attempt[ed] murder charge. Similarly any truthful admission as to the gun or the presence of the one who used it at the scene would have implicated defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“31-4. Obstructing Justice. A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he knowingly commits any of the following acts: (a) furnishes false information^]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The answers were made to police at a time when defendants were charged by complaint with an attempted murder. They were clearly among the targets of the investigation.”
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.