304 Ill. App. 3d 404 - People v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2023
16 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 Davis v. Alaska · Pointer v. Texas · Douglas v. Alabama · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 76 Ill. 2d 289 - People v. Taylor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The introduction of evidence of a prior crime is a general attack on the credibility of the witness. The issue is whether defendant’s inability to make the inquiry created a substantial risk of prejudice by depriving him of the ability to test the truth of the witness’s direct testimony; in answering this question, the court must look to the record as a whole and the alternative means open to defendant to impeach the witness. [Citation.] If that review shows that the jury has been made aware of adequate factors concerning relevant areas of impeachment of a witness, no constitutional question arises merely because defendant has been prohibited on cross-examination from pursuing other areas of inquiry. [Citation.] Thus, in determining whether defendant’s right of confrontation has been violated, a reviewing court looks not only to what defendant was prohibited from doing but also to what he has been allowed to do; and where the jury has been made aware of adequate factors regarding the credibility of the prosecution witness, a reviewing court may conclude that there is no constitutional error or manifest prejudice to the defendant. [Citations.]” Paul, 304 Ill. App. 3d at 411-12 , 710 N.E.2d at 504 .”
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.