253 Ill. App. 3d 15 - People v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 329 Ill. App. 3d 938 - People v. McDonald (2002), 386 Ill. App. 3d 495 - People v. McCullum (2008)
3 federal appellate · 22 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Colorado v. Connelly · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Smith v. Illinois · Arizona v. Roberson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile flight from a crime scene can be indicative of an attempt to prevent detection, such flight differs significantly from flight which is part of the defendant's insane delusions or hallucinations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Expert testimony may be entirely rejected by the trier of fact if he or she concludes a defendant was sane based on factors such as: whether lay testimony is based on observations made shortly before or after the crime; the existence of a plan for the crime; and methods undertaken by the defendant to prevent detection”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“while it is within the province of the trier of fact as the judge of the witness' credibility to reject or give little weight to * * * expert psychiatric testimony, this power is not an unbridled one,”
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.