146 Ill. App. 3d 693 - People v. Broyld’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 194 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Lofton (2000), 160 Ill. App. 3d 536 - People v. Johnston (1987)
28 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 Herrmann v. United States · 95 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Davis · 109 Ill. App. 3d 880 - People v. Watson · 96 Ill. App. 3d 491 - People v. Clark · 95 Ill. App. 3d 93 - People v. Powell
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.
““If a defendant pleads not guilty, the court shall advise him at that time or at any later court date on which he is present that if he escapes from custody or is released on bond and fails to appear in court when required by the court that his failure to appear would constitute a waiver of his right to confront the witnesses against him and trial could proceed in his absence.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 113-4(e).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a defendant after arrest and an initial court appearance for a non-capital felony, fails to .appear for trial, at the request of the State and after the State has affirmatively proven through substantial evidence that the defendant is willfully avoiding trial, the court may commence trial in the absence of the defendant. *** If trial had previously commenced in the presence of the defendant and the defendant willfully absents himself for two successive court days, the court shall proceed to trial. All procedural rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution, Constitution of the State of Illinois, statutes of the State of Illinois, and rules of court shall apply to the proceedings the same as if the defendant were present in court and had not either forfeited his bail bond or escaped from custody. The court may set the case for a trial which may be conducted under this Section despite the failure of the defendant to appear at the hearing at which the trial date is set. When such trial date is set the clerk shall send to the defendant, by certified mail at his last known address indicated on his bond slip, notice of the new date which has been set for trial. Such notification shall be required when the defendant was not personally present in open court at the time when the case was set for trial." (Emphasis added.) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 115 — 4.1(a).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he issue of whether an accused is wilful in failing to appear for trial does not bear upon the accused's guilt or innocence. No presumption of innocence is involved and no constitutional problem results from any burden of producing evidence”
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.