404 Ill. App. 3d 839 - People v. Pelo’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
99
cited by 99 later decisions
1
states following
July 2025
most recently cited
91 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will somehow cast a negative light upon a defendant for reasons that have nothing to do with the case on trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an adequate offer of proof as to what the excluded evidence would have been.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[R]elevant evidence is inadmissible only if the prejudicial effect of admitting that evidence substantially outweighs any probative value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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