69 Ill. App. 3d 403 - People v. Jimerson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 99 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Frias (1983), 136 Ill. App. 3d 385 - People v. Townsend (1985)
23 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 Gerry v. United States · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · 50 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Joyner · 46 Ill. App. 3d 978 - People v. Owens
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, if a potential witness is available and appears to have special information relevant to the case, so that his testimony would not merely be cumulative, and the witness’ relationship with the State is such that he would ordinarily be expected to favor it, the State’s failure to call that witness at trial may give rise to a permissible inference that the witness’ testimony, if he had been called, would have been unfavorable to the State’s case. McCormick on Evidence §272 (2d ed. 1972); 2 Wigmore on Evidence §§285-89 (3d ed. 1940); 29 Am. Jur. 2d Evidence §§180-87 (1967); see United States v. Tucker (7th Cir. 1977), 552 F.2d 202 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Thompson““When a defendant seeks reversal, theories not pursued nor advanced with citation of authorities are deemed waived. [Citations.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“search the record on appeal for unargued and unbriefed reasons to reverse a criminal conviction”
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.