158 Ill. 2d 360 - People v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 173 - Paris v. Feder (1997), 184 Ill. 2d 185 - Cripe v. Leiter (1998)
45 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Maryland v. Craig · Coy v. Iowa
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'shall have the right . . . to meet the witnesses face to face'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“guarantee. The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Younger · State v. Younger“Where the statutory language is clear and unambiguous, it will be given effect without resorting to other aids for construction.”
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.