106 Ill. App. 3d 808 - People v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 145 Ill. App. 3d 626 - People v. Jackson (1986), 194 W. Va. 569 - State v. Phillips (1995)
4 federal appellate · 43 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 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 22 Ill. 2d 175 - The People v. Poland · 83 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Leonard · 51 Ill. App. 3d 721 - People v. Wade · 13 Ill. App. 3d 296 - People v. Reddock
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The statements were relevant to the case because of the defendant's testimony on behalf of the defense.... [T]he defendant also testified that he had a good marriage and believed that the decedent was happy in the marriage. * * * * * * "... The rebuttal testimony as to the decedent's state of mind was relevant to rebut the defense testimony concerning the marital accord between the defendant and the decedent, to respond to the defendant's version of how his wife was shot and to suggest a possible motive for the defendant's crime." 106 Ill.App.3d at 815 , 62 Ill.Dec. at 516 , 436 N.E.2d at 266 . (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statements were relevant to the case because of the defendant's testimony on behalf of the defense.... [T]he defendant also testified that he had a good marriage and believed that the decedent was happy in the marriage. * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The only requirements for ... admissibility [of out-of-court declarations of state of mind] are the unavailability of the declarant and a reasonable probability that the proffered testimony is truthful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Chrans
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.