205 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 208 Ill. 2d 53 - People v. Johnson (2004), 358 Ill. App. 3d 718 - People v. Baugh (2005)
35 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · California v. Green · Griffith v. Kentucky · Douglas v. Alabama
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court should afford a defendant the widest latitude to establish the witness' bias or hostile motivation.”
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.