208 Ill. App. 3d 586 - People v. Ayala’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 238 Ill. App. 3d 457 - People v. Carson (1992), 218 Ill. App. 3d 967 - People v. Johnson (1991)
42 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 Roviaro v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · McCray v. State of Illinois · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young
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.
“A witness qualifies as an expert if “because of his skill, training, or experience, he is better able to form a more accurate opinion as to the matter under consideration than is an ordinary person.” ... [Specialized formal training [i]s unnecessary, ... [and] experience alone [can] qualify one as an expert,.... [A]s long as the testimony is based upon information of the “type reasonably relied upon by experts in the field,” it would be proper to admit it.”
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.