260 Ill. App. 3d 176 - People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho (2003), 375 Ill. App. 3d 966 - People v. Bobo (2007)
41 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 New York v. Ferber · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen · 105 Ill. 2d 22 - People v. Stewart
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, evidence indicating that a defendant committed prior bad acts is improper where its purpose is to demonstrate the defendant's propensity to commit crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ther crimes evidence may include acts which may not be a criminal offense.”
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.