143 Ill. 2d 154 - People v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms (2000), 232 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Bannister (2008)
4 federal appellate · 167 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 · Zant v. Stephens · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Godfrey v. Georgia · Yates v. United States
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a police officer may testify about his conversations with others, such as victims or witnesses, when such testimony is not offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted by the other, but is used to show the investigative steps taken by the officer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may recount the steps taken in the investigation of a crime, and may describe the events leading up to the defendant's arrest, where such testimony is necessary and important to fully explain the State's case to the trier of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]estimony about an out-of-court statement which is used for a purpose other than to prove the truth of the matter asserted in the statement is not `hearsay.'”
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.