62 Ill. 2d 200 - People v. Dowery’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 111 Ill. 2d 416 - Mega v. Holy Cross Hospital (1986), Payne v. Robinson (1988)
85 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Mapp v. Ohio · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Brown v. Illinois · United States v. Calandra
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grant of probation was imposed upon defendant in the present case after the trial court’s consideration that he was not likely to commit another offense; that his rehabilitation would be advanced by probation; and, that the public interest would be served by such disposition. # # # During a revocation hearing the interests of society must be amply considered. [Citations.] Merely because there may exist a technical deficiency in police conduct, a trial court should not be forced to release a defendant and return him to a probationary status where there is patent evidence of a serious probation violation.” ( 62 Ill. 2d 200, 206 , 340 N.E.2d 529, 532 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The only reservation expressed by several courts in denying applicability of the ‘exclusionary rule’ to a revocation proceeding might occur in situations where police harassment of probationers is demonstrated. [Citations.]” ( 62 Ill. 2d 200, 206 , 340 N.E.2d 529, 532 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]erely because there may exist a technical deficiency in police conduct, a trial court should not be forced to release a defendant and return him to a probationary status where there is patent evidence of a serious probation violation.”
2 later decisions 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.