116 Ill. 2d 13 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson (1990), 139 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Enis (1990)
64 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Confrontation errors, though constitutional violations, do not automatically warrant reversal (see Lee v. Illinois (1986), 476 U.S. 530 , 106 S.Ct. 2056 , 90 L.Ed.2d 514 ; Delaware v. Van Arsdall (1986), 475 U.S. 673 , 106 S.Ct. 1431 , 89 L.Ed.2d 674 ; Schneble v. Florida (1972), 405 U.S. 427 , 92 S.Ct. 1056 , 31 L.Ed.2d 340 ), and the defendant's convictions may therefore be affirmed if we are able to conclude that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. (see Chapman v. California (1967), 386 U.S. 18 , 87 S.Ct. 824 , 17 L.Ed.2d 705 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“might suggest that nontestifying witnesses implicated the defendant”
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.