213 Ill. App. 3d 119 - People v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 318 Ill. App. 3d 193 - People v. Fluker (2000), 282 Ill. App. 3d 81 - People v. Buckley (1996)
29 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 119 Ill. 2d 119 - People v. Johnson · 141 Ill. 2d 394 - People v. Mullen · 65 Ill. App. 3d 375 - People v. Valdery
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] prosecutor, as the representative of the State of Illinois, stands in a special relation to the jury. He must therefore choose his words carefully so that he does not place the authority of his office behind the credibility of his witnesses. [Citation.] He may express an opinion if it is based on the record. [Citation.] He may not, however, state his personal opinion regarding the veracity of a witness or vouch for a witness’ credibility.” People v. Roach (1991), 213 Ill. App. 3d 119, 124 , 571 N.E.2d 515, 518 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Schaefer
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.