358 Ill. App. 3d 683 - People v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 392 Ill. App. 3d 243 - People v. Phillips (2009), 378 Ill. App. 3d 580 - People v. Walton (2007)
49 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 146 Ill. 2d 363 - People v. Campbell · 208 Ill. 2d 53 - People v. Johnson · 133 Ill. 2d 226 - People v. Barrow · 172 Ill. 2d 484 - People v. Gilliam
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when they engender substantial prejudice against defendant such that it is impossible to say whether or not a verdict of guilty resulted from those comments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Green“The State is afforded a great deal of latitude in presenting closing argument and is entitled to argue all reasonable inferences from the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Green“faces a substantial burden in attempting to achieve reversal of his conviction based upon improper remarks made during closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Green
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.