293 Ill. App. 3d 39 - People v. Topps’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2020
15 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 Strickland v. Washington · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]estimony by a police officer regarding investigatory procedures that reveals the occurrence of a conversation with a co-offender, but not its contents, is not hearsay [citations]. Such testimony is admissible even if the jury could conclude that police began looking for defendant as a result of their conversation with nontestifying witnesses, ‘as long as the testimony does not gratuitously reveal the substance of [the nontestifying witnesses’] statements and so inform the jury that they told the police that the defendant was responsible for the crime.’” People v. Topps, 293 Ill. App. 3d at 45 , 687 N.E.2d at 110 , quoting People v. Henderson, 142 Ill. 2d 258, 304 , 568 N.E.2d 1234, 1256 (1990).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot rightly attribute to counsel any damage caused by the unfulfilled opening statement concerning defendant's expected testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Magallanes
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.