102 Ill. App. 3d 974 - People v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 148 Ill. App. 3d 215 - People v. Balfour (1986), 127 Ill. App. 3d 784 - People v. Turner (1984)
33 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 73 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Lutz · 56 Ill. 2d 523 - People v. Wright · 96 Ill. App. 3d 721 - People v. Miles · 62 Ill. App. 3d 644 - People v. Tuczynski · 81 Ill. App. 3d 915 - People v. Foster
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.
““A person is justified in the use of force when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend [himself] [another] against the imminent use of unlawful force. However, a person is justified in the use of force which is intended or likely to cause great bodily harm only if he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent [imminent death or great bodily harm to (himself) or (another)] [the commission of a forcible felony].” IPI Criminal 2d No. 24 — 25.06; see also Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 7 — 1.”
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.