255 Ill. App. 3d 103 - People v. Flax’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 354 Ill. App. 3d 224 - People v. Hensley (2004), 385 Ill. App. 3d 53 - People v. Nowicki (2008)
36 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 · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · Easter House v. United States · 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox · 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] reviewing court [may] consider plain errors or defects which affect substantial rights even though the errors were not brought to the trial court’s attention. [Citation.] This plain[-]error rule applies where the evidence in a case is closely balanced or where an error is of such magnitude that the defendant has been denied a fair and impartial trial.” Flax, 255 Ill. App. 3d at 108 , 627 N.E.2d at 363-64 .”
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.