329 Ill. App. 3d 562 - Maffett v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 342 Ill. App. 3d 530 - DiCosola v. Bowman (2003), 403 Ill. App. 3d 147 - Stapleton Ex Rel. Clark v. Moore (2010)
42 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 89 Ill. 2d 273 - Ostendorf v. International Harvester Co. · 157 Ill. 2d 304 - Gill v. Foster · 184 Ill. 2d 328 - Clemons v. Mechanical Devices Co. · 192 Ill. 2d 49 - Voykin v. Estate of DeBoer · Celanese Corporation of America and Federal Insurance Company v. Vandalia Warehouse Corporation
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Even relevant evidence may contain drawbacks of sufficient importance to call for its exclusion, including unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, and misleading the jury. [Citations.] * * * '[I]f the evidence is merely confusing and creates uncertainty, that alone may suffice to tip the balance in favor of exclusion when the information sought to be presented contains negligible probative value.' " Maffett v. Bliss , 329 Ill. App. 3d 562 , 574, 264 Ill.Dec. 741 , 771 N.E.2d 445 (2002).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the cross-examiner, to use a cliché, must telegraph his punch, cross-examination would lose its effectiveness. * * * By eliminating the spontaneity, we would certainly avoid surprises. We may also be limiting the ability to ascertain the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Supreme Court Rule 213(g) does not require that a party disclose journal articles that the party intends to use in cross-examining the opposing party's opinion witness.”
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.