21 Ill. App. 3d 242 - People v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably 112 Ill. App. 3d 964 - People v. Neal (1983), 45 Ill. App. 3d 301 - People v. Fair (1977)
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 108 Ill. App. 2d 1 - People v. De Groot · 16 Ill. 2d 192 - The People v. Grodkiewicz · 65 Ill. App. 2d 23 - People v. Wright · 105 Ill. App. 2d 8 - People v. Smith · The People v. Reeves
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an objection has been made to the evidence and overruled, it cannot be presumed that the evidence did not enter into the court’s consideration. The ruling itself indicates that the court thought the evidence proper. People v. Reed, 287 Ill. 606 , 122 N.E. 806 (1919).” Accord, People v. Ford (1974), 21 Ill. App. 3d 242 , 315 N.E.2d 87 ; Motykowski v. Motykowski (1972), 4 Ill. App. 3d 957 , 282 N.E.2d 458 ; People v. Stewart (1970), 130 Ill. App. 2d 623 , 264 N.E.2d 557 .”
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.