321 Ill. App. 3d 397 - People v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 348 Ill. App. 3d 521 - People v. Martinez (2004), 356 Ill. Dec. 752 - People v. Gutierrez (2012)
39 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 185 Ill. 2d 532 - People v. Smith · United States v. Williams · 128 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Flores · 164 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Jeffries · 154 Ill. 2d 414 - People v. Patterson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Self-defense is an affirmative defense, and once a defendant raises it, the State has the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense, in addition to proving the elements of the charged offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] key aspect to establishing the foundation for the admissibility of a prior inconsistent statement is the need to confront the witness while on the witness stand with that statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he definition of inconsistency does not require a direct contradiction, but only a tendency to contradict the witness' present testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.