35 Ill. App. 3d 666 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably 114 Ill. App. 3d 933 - People v. Heidorn (1983), 129 Ill. App. 3d 745 - People v. Eddington (1984)
25 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 Griffin v. California · 40 Ill. 2d 4 - The People v. Mills · 29 Ill. 2d 511 - The People v. Beier · 27 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Burnett · 124 Ill. App. 2d 415 - People v. Hopkins
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that the prosecutor on closing argument may comment and argue upon the facts and circumstances proved in the case and may draw all legitimate inferences from those proven facts. * * * It is equally clear however that assumptions and statements of fact not based upon evidence in the case may not properly be argued to the jury.””
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.