21 Ill. App. 3d 249 - People v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably State v. Crisantos (Arriagas) (1986), 133 Ill. 2d 118 - People v. Austin (1990)
84 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 32 Ill. 2d 441 - The People v. Irwin · 56 Ill. 2d 361 - People v. Pierce · 17 Ill. 2d 328 - The People v. Russell · 40 Ill. 2d 233 - The PEOPLE v. Gonzales · Chulick v. New York Central Railroad
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Passion on the part of the slayer, no matter how violent!,] will not relieve him from liability for murder unless it is engendered by a provocation which the law recognizes as being reasonable and adequate. If the provocation is not sufficient!,] the crime is murder.” (People v. Matthews (1974), 21 Ill. App. 3d 249, 253 , 314 N.E.2d 15, 18 .)”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hollered and waved his hand in (defendant's) face. Matthews feared that (the tow truck driver) would attack him and he lost control and shot and killed (him).”
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.