56 Ill. App. 3d 700 - People v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 77 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Spates (1979), 72 Ill. App. 3d 445 - People v. Kellas (1979)
36 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 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · Gordon v. United States · 66 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Monroe
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plainly, a judge with the solemn responsibility of determining the punishment of the convicted is to be encouraged to hear and consider all available and pertinent information concerning the person and the crime, so as to enable him to impose a punishment which is appropriate. However, before relying on such information the judge must determine its accuracy [citation], and he must take care to shield his mind from what might be the prejudicial effect of unreliable and other improper evidence. [Citation.] If it is shown that the convicted has been prejudiced by the procedure adopted, or material considered by the trial court in conducting its inquiry prior to the imposition of punishment, the resultant penalty will not be allowed to stand.” ( 38 Ill. 2d 331, 337-38 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The phrase ‘dishonesty [or] false statement’ denotes crimes such as perjury or subornation of perjury, false statement, criminal fraud, embezzlement, of false pretense, or any other offense in the nature of crimen falsi the commission of which involves some element of deceit, untruthfulness, or falsification bearing on the accused’s propensity to testify truthfully. (28 USCS Appendix 66, Federal Rules of Evidence, Editorial Comment §609.1.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Malone“The trial court held that this testimony did not tend to prove that the complainant had ever falsely charged a man with rape but only showed that she had threatened to do so. Without proof that she had filed previous rape charges, this evidence did not prove her propensity to falsely cry rape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hutchinson
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.