109 Ill. App. 3d 880 - People v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 125 Ill. 2d 24 - People v. Partee (1988), 214 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Ramirez (2005)
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 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 96 Ill. App. 3d 491 - People v. Clark · 95 Ill. App. 3d 93 - People v. Powell · 77 Ill. App. 3d 157 - People v. Zielinski · 69 Ill. App. 3d 548 - People v. Davis
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e hold that a prima facie case is established by showing that the statutory requirements have been complied with. Only if the defendant introduces some evidence that he did not act wilfully should more be required of the State.” Watson, 109 Ill. App. 3d at 883 , 441 N.E.2d at 154 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) When a defendant after arrest and an initial court appearance for a non-capital felony, fails to appear for trial, at the request of the State and after the State has affirmatively proven through substantial evidence that the defendant is willfully avoiding trial, the court may commence trial in the absence of the defendant. *** The court may set the case for a trial which may be conducted under this Section despite the failure of the defendant to appear at the hearing at which the trial date is set. When such trial date is set the clerk shall send to the defendant, by certified mail at his last known address indicated on his bond slip, notice of the new date which has been set for trial. Such notification shall be required when the defendant was not personally present in open court at the time when the case was set for trial.” (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 115-4.1(a).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If a defendant pleads not guilty, the court shall advise him at that time or at any later court date on which he is present that if he *** is released on bond and fails to appear in court when required by the court that his failure to appear would constitute a waiver of his right to confront the witnesses against him and trial could proceed in his absence.””
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.