51 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Bridgeforth’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1998 · most notably 53 Ill. 2d 537 - People v. Farnsley (1973), 27 Ill. App. 3d 988 - People v. Carbona (1975)
69 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 · Schuyler National Bank v. Bollong · 40 Ill. 2d 392 - The PEOPLE v. Raby
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar the intelligence of the witness was ascertained, to some extent, by her appearance and conduct in the presence of the court, and it is only where there has been an abuse of discretion or a manifest misapprehension of some legal principle that a decision to admit such testimony will be reviewed. [Citation.]” ( 51 Ill. 2d 52, 57 , 281 N.E.2d 617, 620 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the witness was sufficiently mature to receive correct impressions by her senses, to recollect and narrate intelligently, and to appreciate the moral duty to tell the truth, she was competent. Not age, but the degree of intelligence of a child, determines the question of the child’s competency. [Citations.]” ( 51 Ill. 2d 52, 56-57 , 281 N.E.2d 617, 620 .)”
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.