366 Ill. App. 3d 770 - People v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 385 Ill. App. 3d 585 - People v. Johnson (2008), 373 Ill. App. 3d 948 - People v. Evans (2007)
55 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 Crawford v. Washington · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen · 185 Ill. 2d 532 - People v. Smith · 194 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Hall
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) there must be an occurrence sufficiently startling to produce a spontaneous and unreflecting statement, (2) there must be an absence of time for the declarant to fabricate the statement, and (3) the statement must relate to the circumstances of the occurrence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Hearsay evidence, an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted, is generally inadmissible.”
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.