162 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 317 Ill. App. 3d 1072 - People v. Bailey (2000), 282 Ill. App. 3d 209 - People v. Gardner (1996)
41 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 141 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Smith · 142 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Gonzalez · 148 Ill. 2d 281 - People v. Easley · 129 Ill. 2d 321 - People v. Coleman · 149 Ill. 2d 1 - Meyers v. Kissner
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[H] ear say identification is reversible error only when it serves as a substitute for courtroom identification or when it is used to strengthen or corroborate a weak identification. If, however, the testimony is merely cumulative or is supported by a positive identification and by other corroborating circumstances, it constitutes harmless error.” Colon, 162 Ill. 2d at 34 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is harmless where the court is satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the defendant's conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The erroneous admission at trial of * * * gang evidence does not automatically warrant reversal.”
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.