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409 Ill. App. 3d 804 - People v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron · 238 Ill. 2d 598 - People v. Thompson · 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Moreover, any possible prejudicial impact is greatly diminished by the court's instructions that closing arguments are not evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[I]mproper arguments can be corrected by proper jury instructions, which carry more weight than the arguments of counsel.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.