84 Ill. App. 3d 1065 - People v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Hayes (1990), State v. ANGEL T. (2009)
56 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 Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Griffin v. California · Grunewald v. United States · Fisher v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[There are] no special circumstances that would justify use of a constitutional privilege to discredit or convict a person who asserts it. The value of constitutional privileges is largely destroyed if persons can be penalized for relying on them. It seems peculiarly incongruous and indefensible for courts which exist and act only under the Constitution to draw inferences of lack of honesty from invocation of a privilege deemed worthy of enshrinement in the Constitution.’ ” (Meredith, 84 Ill. App. 3d at 1073 , 405 N.E.2d at 1312 , quoting Grunewald v. United States (1957), 353 U.S. 391, 425-26 , 1 L. Ed. 2d 931, 955 , 77 S. Ct. 963, 984-85 (Black, J., concurring).)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Defendant argues that when the prosecutor commented upon defendant's telephone call to his attorney the morning after the shooting incident, the prosecutor intended to raise in the minds of the jury an inference of defendant's guilt from this conduct. The crux of the claimed constitutional error is that the prosecutor's comment and its resulting inference equate the exercise of a constitutional privilege with an admission of guilt, thereby penalizing defendant for the exercise of his right to counsel. We agree." 84 Ill. App.3d 1065, 1071-72 , 405 N.E.2d 1306 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“he says that he talked to these people * * * he called his lawyer * * * * * * I submit he knew he had shot those people [and] that is why he went to go call his lawyer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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