67 Ill. 2d 222 - People v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 74 Ill. 2d 329 - People v. Vriner (1978), 114 Ill. 2d 170 - People v. Johnson (1986)
178 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 52 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Stringer · 42 Ill. 2d 508 - The People v. Blumenshine · 53 Ill. 2d 550 - People v. Zuniga · 52 Ill. 2d 525 - People v. Pagan · 55 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Connolly
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Conflicts in testimony are certainly not uncommon. The resolution of questions of fact is for the jury. The credibility of witnesses is for the jury to assess, e * *. A court of review will not set aside a jury’s verdict unless the evidence presented at trial is so improbable as to raise a reasonable doubt of guilt.””
2 later decisions 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.