69 Ill. App. 3d 65 - People v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably 93 Ill. App. 3d 808 - People v. Crossno (1981), 92 Ill. App. 3d 370 - People v. Wilson (1981)
39 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 Taylor v. Kentucky · 55 Ill. 2d 577 - People v. Skorusa · 42 Ill. App. 3d 408 - People v. Franklin · People v. Long · 38 Ill. App. 3d 689 - People v. Thomas
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is certainly true that the law says that you are to go through the trial with the presumption of innocence, and you should retain that attitude up through that point. But once you walk into that Jury room you no longer have that responsibility.” Matthews, 69 Ill. App. 3d at 66 .”
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.