140 Ill. App. 3d 576 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably 151 Ill. App. 3d 435 - People v. Davis (1986), 164 Ill. App. 3d 1055 - People v. Daniels (1987)
25 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 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · 76 Ill. 2d 19 - People v. Baptist · 62 Ill. 2d 448 - People v. McDonald
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence of other crimes is admissible where relevant to establish any fact material to the prosecution. [Citation.] Proof of motive is always relevant in a criminal prosecution to show that defendant committed the offense with which he is charged [citation], and evidence which goes to show motive is admissible even though it may reveal another offense. [Citation.] Relevant, admissible evidence need not be excluded simply because it tends to prejudice the accused. [Citation.] The trial court must weigh the relevance of the evidence against its prejudicial effect to the defendant [citation], and its determination of whether evidence is relevant and admissible will not be reversed absent a clear abuse of discretion.” 140 Ill. App. 3d at 579 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Knowing control of the 300 grams of cocaine found in his apartment was a material fact in issue, the State arguing that the cache of weapons indicated defendant was protecting his illicit drug trade and defendant asserting that he did not know the cocaine was in his apartment. Thus, the evidence was relevant and its admission was proper.” (Wright, 140 Ill. App. 3d at 580 .)”
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.