71 Ill. App. 3d 504 - People v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 107 Ill. App. 3d 603 - People v. Ellis (1982), 102 Ill. App. 3d 702 - People v. Ferguson (1981)
34 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 57 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Williams · Junior Chamber of Commerce of Rochester, Inc. v. United States Jaycees · 56 Ill. 2d 306 - People v. Benedik · 21 Ill. App. 3d 249 - People v. Matthews · 56 Ill. App. 2d 159 - People v. Williams
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person is justified in the use of force when and to the extent that he reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to terminate unlawful attack upon a dwelling. However, a person is justified in the use of force which is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm only if (1) the entry is made or attempted in a violent, riotous or tumultuous manner and he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent an assault upon himself or another then in the dwelling; or (2) he reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent the commission of a felony in the dwelling.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mutual quarrel or combat is sufficient to support a finding of serious provocation. [Citations.] The term ‘mutual combat’ has been defined as one into which both parties enter willingly, or in which two persons, upon a sudden quarrel and in hot blood, mutually fight on equal terms.” Hudson, 71 Ill. App. 3d at 510 , 390 N.E.2d at 9 .”
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.