47 Ill. App. 3d 362 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 214 Ill. App. 3d 554 - Skelton v. Chicago Transit Authority (1991), United States of America Ex Rel. Johnny Veal v. Richard Derobertis (1982)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 Washington v. Texas · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · Holder v. United States · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although defense counsel here did not make a formal offer of proof by calling Flynn to the stand and making a record of his proposed testimony out of the presence of the jury, he did make clear to the court what Flynn's testimony would be if he were allowed to testify.... A formal offer of proof may have been preferable, but under the circumstances we think that defense counsel's statement to the court was sufficient to serve the purposes of an offer of proof: to give the trial court an opportunity to ascertain the admissibility of the offered evidence and to enable the reviewing court to determine whether there was prejudicial error in excluding the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parisie v. Greer
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.