282 Ill. App. 3d 982 - People v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2025
21 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 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 146 Ill. 2d 363 - People v. Campbell · 152 Ill. 2d 133 - People v. Pasch · 153 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Stanciel · 145 Ill. 2d 520 - People v. Crane
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he term 'knew or should have known' is commonly used in civil cases; however, it should not be equated with the requisite mental state of 'knowledge' in criminal prosecutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and any inference must be based upon established facts and not pyramided on intervening inferences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Cunningham“a mistake of fact constitutes a valid defense if that mistake negates the requisite knowledge.”
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.