205 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Caffey’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 444 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 226 Ill. 2d 92 - People v. Wheeler (2007), 234 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Glasper (2009)
3 federal appellate · 444 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chambers v. Mississippi · Payne v. Tennessee · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Williamson 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 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion will be found only where the trial court's ruling is arbitrary, fanciful, unreasonable, or where no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the trial court.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sardin · People v. Kelley“exception to the general rule of deference applies in cases where 'a trial court's exercise of discretion has been frustrated by an erroneous rule of law.' " Id. (quoting People v. Williams , 188 Ill. 2d 365 , 369, 242 Ill.Dec. 260 , 721 N.E.2d 539 (1999) ). "The decision whether to admit evidence cannot be made in isolation. The trial court must consider a number of circumstances that bear on that issue, including questions of reliability and prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sardin · People v. Cook“`Hearsay evidence is an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted, and it is generally inadmissible due to its lack of reliability unless it falls within an exception to the hearsay rule.'”
3 later decisions 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.