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204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

565
cited by 565 later decisions
6
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

17 federal appellate · 520 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 565 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007), 214 Ill. 2d 455 - People v. Woods (2005)

17 federal appellate · 520 state decisions

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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 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen · 185 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Kliner · 122 Wash. 2d 1 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Young · 21 Cal. 4th 903 - People v. Falsetta

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 565 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the proximity in time to the charged or predicate offense; (2) the degree of factual similarity to the charged or predicate offense; or (3) other relevant facts and circumstances.”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Hernandez · People v. Reber
  2. “no reasonable [person] would take the view adopted by the trial court.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Arze · 358 Ill. Dec. 552 - People v. Jackson
  3. “Courts generally prohibit the admission of this evidence to protect against the jury convicting a defendant because he or she is a bad person deserving punishment.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Reber · People v. Arze

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.