101 Ill. App. 3d 830 - People v. Dowd’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner (1989), 137 Ill. App. 3d 171 - People v. Morrison (1985)
46 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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Ventresca · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Murzyn v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. Countee Williams v. John J. Twomey, Warden
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principle that a State may not knowingly use false evidence, including false testimony, ... does not cease to apply merely because the false testimony goes only to the credibility of the witness. The jury’s estimate of the truthfulness and reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of guilt or innocence, and it is upon such subtle factors as the possible interest of the witness in testifying falsely that a defendant’s life or liberty may depend.””
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.