181 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Thompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 189 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Wright (1999), 404 Ill. App. 3d 839 - People v. Pelo (2010)
3 federal appellate · 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 121 Ill. 2d 401 - People v. Thompkins · 175 Ill. 2d 294 - People v. Pecoraro · 168 Ill. 2d 509 - People v. Coleman · 176 Ill. 2d 326 - People v. Olinger · 146 Ill. 2d 413 - People v. Andrews
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n offer of proof serves dual purposes: (1) it discloses to the court and opposing counsel the nature of the offered evidence, thus enabling the court to take appropriate action, and (2) it provides the reviewing court with an adequate record to determine whether the trial court's action was erroneous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to provide the reviewing court with a record to determine whether exclusion of the evidence was erroneous and harmful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the key to preserving a trial court's error in excluding evidence”
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.