391 Ill. App. 3d 419 - People v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2021
11 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 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron · 103 Ill. 2d 472 - People v. Zehr · 122 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Emerson · 209 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hopp · 222 Ill. 2d 340 - People v. Allen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I shall now at this time touch upon broad fundamental principles that are applicable to criminal cases. Do not consider these to be instructions of law. Those will be given to you later at the conclusion of the case. Now, the indictment that I just read to you or the charge against the defendant is not any evidence or presumption of guilt against the defendant. It’s merely a formal charge necessary to place him on trial. The defendant is presumed to be innocent of the charge in the indictment. This presumption remains with him throughout the trial until you’ve been satisfied by the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant, and the burden of proving the guilt of the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt is on the State. The law does not require the defendant to prove his innocence. The defendant is not required to present any evidence or testify, and if he chooses not to testify in this case, it cannot be held against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot hold that the failure to follow a supreme court rule standing alone becomes a per se plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hammonds“defendant's trial began on October 1, 2007”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Hammonds
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.