51 Ill. App. 3d 461 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 161 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Williams (1994), 67 Ill. App. 3d 620 - People v. Warfel (1979)
71 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 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · Graves v. United States · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · Gordon v. United States
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) General Rule. For the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime, except on a plea of nolo contendere, is admissible but only if the crime, (1) was punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year under the law under which he was convicted, or (2) involved dishonesty or false statement regardless of the punishment unless (3), in either case, the judge determines that the probative value of the evidence of the crime is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice. (b) Time limit. Evidence of a conviction under this rule is not admissible if a period of more than 10 years has elapsed since the date of conviction or of the release of the witness from confinement, whichever is the later date.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Yet we cannot conceive of what there is about the crime of aggravated battery which is at all probative of the defendant’s honesty and veracity as a witness.” 51 Ill. App. 3d 461, 465 , 366 N.E.2d 1058, 1062 .”
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.