72 Ill. App. 3d 445 - People v. Kellas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 117 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Shum (1987), 113 Ill. App. 3d 818 - People v. Winfield (1983)
68 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 Davis v. Alaska · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 56 Ill. 2d 493 - People v. Lilly
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While neither evidence of an arrest nor indictment may ordinarily be admissible to impeach credibility generally, an arrest or charge of a crime may be shown or inquired into, where it reasonably could tend to show that the witness's testimony might be influenced by interest, bias, or motive to testify falsely.”
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.