366 Ill. App. 3d 84 - People v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 381 Ill. App. 3d 462 - People v. Cardamone (2008), 386 Ill. App. 3d 598 - People v. Walston (2008)
89 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 Old Chief v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be cautious in considering the admissibility of other-crimes evidence to show propensity by engaging in a meaningful assessment of the probative value versus the prejudicial impact of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“carefully limit[] the details of the other crime to what is necessary to `illuminate the issue for which the other crime was introduced'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Your verdict must be unanimous. It is your duty, as jurors, to consult with one another and to deliberate with a view to reaching an agreement, if you can do so without violence to individual judgment. *** In the course of your deliberations, do not hesitate to reexamine your own views and change your opinion if convinced it is erroneous. But do not surrender your honest conviction as to the weight or effect of evidence solely because of the opinion of your fellow jurors, or for the mere purpose of returning a verdict.’ ””
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.