162 Ill. App. 3d 607 - People v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 137 Ill. 2d 500 - People v. Thomas (1990), 185 Ill. 2d 467 - People v. Terrell (1998)
50 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 79 Ill. 2d 129 - People v. Lindgren · 117 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Shum · 79 Ill. 2d 341 - People v. Friedman · 148 Ill. App. 3d 888 - People v. Server · 109 Ill. 2d 369 - People v. Friesland
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a prosecution for a sexual act perpetrated upon a child under the age of 13, including but not limited to prosecutions for violations of Sections 12 — 13 through 12 — 16 of the Criminal Code of 1961, the following evidence shall be admitted as an exception to the hearsay rule: (1) testimony by such child that he or she complained of such act to another; and (2) testimony by the person to whom the child complained that such complaint was made in order to corroborate the child’s testimony.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 115 — 10.)”
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.