173 Ill. 2d 220 - People v. Falaster’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Ward (2005), 379 Ill. App. 3d 441 - People v. Spicer (2008)
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 Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk · 38 Ill. 2d 223 - Hux v. Raben · 9 Ill. 2d 92 - The People v. Trefonas
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a prosecution for violation of [s]ection 12 — 13, 12 — 14, 12-— 15[,] or 12 — 16 of the ‘Criminal Code of 1961[,’] statements made by the victim to medical personnel for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment including descriptions of the cause of symptom, pain or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment shall be admitted as an exception to the hearsay rule.” 725 ILCS 5/115 — 13 ( West 1992 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a victim's identification of a family member as the offender is closely related to the victim's diagnosis and treatment in cases involving allegations of sexual abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Drake“the victim underwent the examination solely as a means of developing evidence for use in a subsequent prosecution.”
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.