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74 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

138
cited by 138 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

126 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 88 Ill. 2d 225 - People v. Baynes (1981), 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner (1989)

126 state decisions

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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 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · 42 Ill. 2d 479 - The PEOPLE v. Smith · 30 Ill. 2d 51 - The People v. Nastasio · 43 Ill. App. 3d 649 - People v. Johnson · People v. Weisman

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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““For an assignment of error, the record must show the error; hence, the record must be preserved for an adequate assessment on appeal. This is so because, on review, ‘the reviewing court is restricted in its examination to the record.’ (People v. Shoffner (1948), 400 Ill. 174, 177 .) A reviewing court may not guess at the harm to an appellant * * * This is not its role. Rather the reviewing court evaluates the record, as it is, for error. Where the record is insufficient or does not demonstrate the alleged error, the reviewing court must refrain from supposition and decide accordingly. This court has consistently held that way.” (People v. Edwards (1978), 74 Ill. 2d 1, 6-7 , 383 N.E.2d 944 .)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Jones

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.