166 Ill. 2d 310 - People v. Newberry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Illinois v. Fisher (2004), 223 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Sutherland (2006)
7 federal appellate · 81 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · California v. Trombetta · Arizona v. Youngblood · Mooney v. Holohan
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e also disagree that Youngblood does not apply whenever the contested evidence provides a defendant's 'only hope for exoneration' and is 'essential to and determinative of the outcome of the case.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Where evidence is requested by the defense in a discovery motion, the State is on notice that the evidence must be preserved, and the defense is not required to make an independent showing that the evidence has exculpatory value in order to establish a due process violation. [Citation.] If the State proceeds to destroy the evidence, appropriate sanctions may be imposed even if the destruction is inadvertent. No showing of bad faith is necessary." Newberry, 166 Ill.2d at 317 , 209 Ill.Dec. 748 , 652 N.E.2d 288 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“realistic hope of exonerating himself absent the opportunity to have [the evidence] examined by his own experts.”
4 later decisions 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.