People v. Beardsley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• overruling Kurth to the extent that it makes surreptitious recording by one party to a conversation illegal
• “Beardsley held ... that the eavesdropping statute did not prohibit the recording of a conversation by a party to the conversation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• American Civil Liberties Union of Ill. v. Alvarez
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-05-08· cited 304×
• People v. Edwards
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-01-29· cited 227×
• People v. O'TOOLE
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-03-30· cited 58×
• Deon L. Thomas v. Bruce Pearl, Individually and in His Representative Capacity as Assistant Basketball Coach of the University of Iowa
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-07-30· cited 57×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-06-05· cited 33×
• People v. Clark
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2014-04-24· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Hyde
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-07-13· cited 30×
• People v. Nunez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-09-28· cited 29×
• People v. Herrington
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-12-22· cited 28×
• In re Marriage of Almquist
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-08-26· cited 26×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-05-30· cited 24×
• People v. Nestrock
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-09-08· cited 19×
• People v. Siwek
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-09-16· cited 16×
• People v. Wilson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-04-16· cited 13×
• Paul M. Storment, Jr. v. John C. O'malley, Administrator, Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-07-30· cited 12×
• People v. Wydra
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-30· cited 12×
• Bender v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-05-10· cited 11×
• People v. Calvert
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-02-10· cited 9×
• Archer Daniels Midland Co. v. Whitacre
  C.D. Illinois· 1999-08-05· cited 6×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-09-26· cited 6×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lopez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 983×
• People v. Wright
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-03-29· cited 132×
• The People v. Kurth
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-03-24· cited 52×
• People v. Klingenberg
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-12-29· cited 16×
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-12-30· cited 13×
• Cassidy v. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-05-15· cited 12×

Other cases named People v. Beardsley

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Beardsley
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1907-12-10· cited 33×
• People v. Beardsley
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2004-10-28· cited 14×
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-12-30· cited 13×
• People v. Beardsley
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-05-31
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2018-03-15
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2019-06-14
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2019-06-14
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2019-06-14
• People v. Beardsley
  New York Court of Appeals· 2017-02-28
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-06-22
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-09-30
• People v. Beardsley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2016-09-30