302 Ill. App. 3d 587 - People v. Lach’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2023
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 Jackson v. Virginia · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 146 Ill. 2d 363 - People v. Campbell · 60 Ill. 2d 287 - People v. Murrell · 103 Ill. 2d 327 - People v. Frey
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.
“By complying with the statute, the State demonstrates that reasonably protective measures have been taken to ensure that the blood taken from [the] defendant and tested in the hospital lab was not changed or substituted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Beck“the chemical tests performed upon an individual's blood * * * were ordered in the regular course of providing emergency medical treatment and not at the request of law enforcement authorities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Beck“The purpose of section 11-501.4 is to insure the reliability and integrity of the test results conducted on a person charged with [DUI].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Beck
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.