55 Ill. App. 3d 421 - People v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 145 Ill. 2d 441 - People v. Thingvold (1991), 138 Ill. App. 3d 481 - People v. Kimbrough (1985)
41 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 Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · 62 Ill. 2d 448 - People v. McDonald · 20 Ill. 2d 11 - The People v. Tranowski · 55 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Connolly · 13 Ill. App. 3d 620 - People v. Scott
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fires occurred independently of each other, on different dates and at different locations. Therefore, the mere fact that this is an arson case will neither suspend the general rule barring the introduction into evidence of other crimes, nor dispense with the foundation which must be laid before an exception to that rule can be made. [3]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wedemann“fires could be introduced to show that all of the fires were committed as part of a connected scheme or purpose. The Miller Court held that the prior fires must have a close connection, namely they must occur”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wedemann“at or about the same time and in the same immediate area as did the arson for which defendant was charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Wedemann
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.