245 Ill. App. 3d 890 - People v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2023
14 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 91 Ill. 2d 536 - People v. Huckstead · 66 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Monroe · 129 Ill. 2d 458 - People v. Boclair · 104 Ill. 2d 332 - People v. Gonzalez · 61 Ill. App. 3d 428 - People v. Lake
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as it is referred to in the federal rules, refers to the relationship a particular propostition bears to the ultimate determination of the action. (E. Cleary & M. Graham, Handbook of Illinois Evidence § 401.1, at 128 (5th ed. 1990).) Probative value, on the other hand, refers to the tendency of the evidence to render a particular proposition more or less probable than it would be without the evidence, and is determined by testing the proffered fact against”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]he basic principle that animates our law of evidence is that what is relevant is admissible[;] exceptions to that principle must justify themselves.'”
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.