148 Ill. 2d 281 - People v. Easley’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 189 Ill. 2d 99 - People v. Blue (2000), 192 Ill. 2d 307 - People v. Easley (2000)
4 federal appellate · 118 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 Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Rhode Island v. Innis · Doyle v. Ohio
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The remarks by the prosecutor, while improper, do not amount to substantial prejudice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"Regardless, though, of whether the case had been submitted to the jury with or without the gang evidence, the jury would still have been presented with the testimony of the eyewitnesses to the murder as well as the physical evidence in support of the State's case against defendant. Accordingly, we hold that defendant was not denied his right to a fair and impartial trial by the introduction of the gang evidence." Easley, 148 Ill.2d at 330 , 170 Ill.Dec. 356 , 592 N.E.2d 1036 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The effect of inflammatory evidence depends upon the circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.