People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 232 Ill. 2d 113 - People v. Walker · 223 Ill. 2d 109 - People v. McCarty · 159 Ill. 2d 419 - People v. Staten · 239 Ill. 2d 503 - People v. Williams · 88 Ill. 2d 10 - People v. Woodruff
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when (1) a clear or obvious error occurred and the evidence is so closely balanced that the error alone threatened to tip the scales of justice against the defendant, regardless of the seriousness of the error, or (2) a clear or obvious error occurred and that error is so serious that it affected the fairness of the defendant's trial and challenged the integrity of the judicial process, regardless of the closeness of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Staake
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.