269 Ill. App. 3d 51 - People v. Damnitz’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 228 - Eychaner v. Gross (2002), Williams v. Bailey (2010)
26 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 144
Relies on Liteky et al United States · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · United States v. Dunnigan · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s Francisco Vargas drove past a school, he heard the loud sound of something hitting the side of his car. Vargas got out of the car and saw defendant standing in the schoolyard. Vargas chased defendant and hit him with a stick, knocking him to the ground. Vargas went back to his car. A few minutes later defendant shot Vargas.”
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.