331 Ill. App. 3d 1064 - People v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2024
17 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 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms · 195 Ill. 2d 336 - People v. Maggette · 132 Ill. 2d 178 - People v. Terrell · 181 Ill. 2d 297 - People v. Williams · 142 Ill. 2d 548 - People v. Lawler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he instructions were enough to improperly tip the balance of evidence toward conviction of defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“means any contact, however slight, between the sex organ or anus of one person and an object or finger.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant touched her `in' her `private part'”
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.