139 Ill. App. 3d 21 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson (1990), 123 Ill. 2d 113 - People v. Harris (1988)
123 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · 102 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Caballero · 79 Ill. App. 3d 156 - People v. Witted · 53 Ill. 2d 465 - People v. Powell · 113 Ill. App. 3d 818 - People v. Winfield
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The danger in prior consistent statements is that a jury is likely to attach disproportionate significance to them. People tend to believe that which is repeated most often, regardless of its intrinsic merit, and repetition lends credibility to testimony that it might not otherwise deserve.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]erhaps the most critical fact in determining the degree to which a prior consistent statement deprived a defendant of a fair trial is whether the statement itself had a bearing upon his guilt or innocence. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Davis“[t]he improper bolstering of a witness' credibility has been deemed plain error because corroboration by repetition preys on the human failing of placing belief in that which is most often repeated.”
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.