61 Ill. App. 3d 621 - People v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably 108 Ill. App. 3d 891 - People v. Teague (1982), 70 Ill. App. 3d 131 - People v. Natoli (1979)
52 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 67 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Manion · 48 Ill. 2d 56 - The PEOPLE v. Catlett · 17 Ill. 2d 287 - The People v. Lobb · 69 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Jackson · 7 Ill. App. 3d 333 - People v. Hudson
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence relating to prior arrests of an individual is generally inadmissible into evidence if they have no relevance to the question of the guilt of the defendant other than the inference that he has a propensity to commit crimes. [Citations.] Yet the erroneous introduction of evidence of a defendant’s prior criminal conduct does not, per se, constitute grounds for reversal; such an error may be considered harmless where the evidence shows that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” ( 61 Ill. App. 3d 621, 629 , 377 N.E.2d 1063, 1070 .)”
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.