228 Ill. App. 3d 167 - People v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2025
20 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · 27 Ill. 2d 398 - The People v. Sprinkle · 24 Ill. 2d 93 - The PEOPLE v. Santucci · People v. Marino
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois courts have long upheld the right of an accused to a fair and impartial trial by jury, 'free from influence or intimation by the trial court.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'District Attorney's Office,' " bolstering that witness's testimony by saying that there was, in fact, such a thing as a district attorney in Illinois. Id. at 170 . The appellate court noted that this not only undermined defense counsel's impeachment, but it added evidence in the State's favor. Id. The trial court also injected evidence in the State's favor by interrupting defense counsel's cross-examination regarding whether the defendant's interrogation was recorded, saying that tape recorders " 'are not used in police stations.' " Id. The trial court also "disparag[ed]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Minter“mockery of the defense greatly undermined counsel's theory *** and could not help but communicate to the jury what the judge was thinking. The judge's attack on defense counsel *** coupled with the judge's hostile attitude, *** denied Mitchell the fair trial to which he is entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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