321 Ill. App. 3d 1005 - People v. Drum’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 386 Ill. App. 3d 598 - People v. Walston (2008), 335 Ill. App. 3d 1046 - People v. Little (2003)
32 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 191 Ill. 2d 251 - McMath v. Katholi · 194 Ill. 2d 485 - People v. Drum · 158 Ill. 2d 275 - People v. Childress · 299 Ill. App. 3d 818 - People v. Owen · 163 Ill. 2d 498 - Illinois State Toll Highway Authority v. Heritage Standard Bank & Trust Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must rely upon counsel's representations or offers of proof to determine what the context for the evidentiary ruling will likely be at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is always subject to reconsideration during trial.”
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.