127 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Slim’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
521 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 537 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 235 Ill. 2d 213 - People v. Siguenza-Brito (2009), 137 Ill. 2d 195 - People v. Herrett (1990)
521 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 Neil v. Biggers · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland · 74 Ill. 2d 329 - People v. Vriner · 114 Ill. 2d 170 - People v. Johnson
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 537 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the opportunity the victim had to view the criminal at the time of the crime; (2) the witness' degree of attention; (3) the accuracy of the witness' prior description of the criminal; (4) the level of certainty demonstrated by the victim at the identification confrontation; and (5) the length of time between the crime and the identification confrontation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has consistently been held that a witness is not expected or required to distinguish individual and separate features of a suspect in making an identification. Instead, a witness' positive identification can be sufficient even though the witness gives only a general description based on the total impression the accused's appearance made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a bench trial, it is for the trial judge to determine the credibility of witnesses, to weigh evidence and draw reasonable inferences therefrom, and to resolve any conflicts in the evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.