185 Ill. App. 3d 356 - People v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2014
23 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chambers v. Mississippi · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · Cohen v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant in a criminal case may prove any facts or circumstances tending to show that another committed the crime with which he is charged. [Citation.] However, if the evidence is too remote or too speculative [citation], or if it fails to link a third person closely with the commission of the crime [citation], then the trial court should exclude the 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.