238 Ill. 2d 478 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
131
cited by 131 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
127 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron · Rogers v. United States · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) a clear or obvious error occurred and the evidence is so closely balanced that the error alone threatened to tip the scales of justice against the defendant, regardless of the seriousness of the error, or (2) a clear or obvious error occurred and that error is so serious that it affected the fairness of the defendant's trial and challenged the integrity of the judicial process, regardless of the closeness of the evidence." People v. Piatkowski, 225 Ill.2d 551, 565 , 312 Ill. Dec. 338 , 870 N.E.2d 403 (2007) (citing People v. Herron, 215 Ill.2d 167, 186-87 , 294 Ill.Dec. 55 , 830 N.E.2d 467 (2005)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a nonprejudicial ex parte communication is insufficient to impact the fairness of a defendant's trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Shaw
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.