266 Ill. App. 3d 469 - People v. Heaton’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 173 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Miller (1996), 282 Ill. App. 3d 944 - People v. Dalcollo (1996)
31 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 Frye v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho · 133 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Eyler · 215 Ill. App. 3d 413 - People v. Lipscomb · 131 Ill. App. 3d 80 - People v. Majer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“given the testimony the trial court had before it and the current level of acceptance of the RFLP process and the statistical analysis, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing [the State's expert] to testify regarding the DNA evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under [the abuse of discretion standard], we must look at the state of the record as it existed in the trial court at the time the trial court made its determination”
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.