52 Ill. 2d 409 - People v. McNeil’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1993
21 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Harris · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary · 29 Ill. 2d 68 - The People v. 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Their sole allegation relating to the reliability of the informer is the general averment that he had previously given information to said complainant which proved to be true.’ They do not reveal the character of this prior information or whether it led to arrests or convictions. * * * Absent such factual allegations, or other grounds from which an issuing magistrate could reasonably credit the informer’s accusation, the affidavits are defective and the warrants cannot stand.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Tripp““It is true that the fact a witness has accurately identified A as a participant in an occurrence has no direct bearing upon the accuracy of his identification of B as a participant in the same occurrence. But in some circumstances that fact may tend to indicate that the witness is an accurate observer, and thus be admissible by way of corroboration. The question would then be whether the corroborative value is outweighed by the prejudicial effect.” 52 Ill. 2d 409, 417 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We can think of no relevancy of this testimony on the question of the guilt of this defendant. The identifying of the three codefendants as participants in the robbery certainly had no weight in determining whether the defendant had likewise participated therein. It was well calculated to prejudice the defendant in the eyes of the jury.” 4 Ill. 2d 164, 168-69 .”
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.