259 Ill. App. 3d 949 - People v. Kernel’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2025
7 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 109 Ill. 2d 102 - People v. Adams · 99 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Frias · 34 Ill. App. 3d 521 - People v. Murray · 142 Ill. App. 3d 165 - People v. Tanner · 160 Ill. App. 3d 983 - People v. Winfield
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A witness is not considered equally accessible, however, if the witness, due to a familial relationship to the defendant, would likely be biased against the State. [Citation], The State may then properly comment on the absence of the witness, especially where the witness could shed light on the accused’s theory of defense.” Zernel, 259 Ill. App. 3d at 956-57 , 636 N.E.2d at 839.”
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.