84 Ill. 2d 350 - People v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 292 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins (1985), 205 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Caffey (2001)
8 federal appellate · 292 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 Pauling v. McElroy · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · 76 Ill. 2d 19 - People v. Baptist · Federal Power Commission v. Southern California Edison Co.
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[I]t is well settled that, when a defendant fails to make a timely objection at trial or in the post-trial motion, irregularities in the closing argument complained of on review are ordinarily deemed waived. [Citations.] Timely and specific objection at trial affords the court an opportunity to prevent most errors by sustaining the objection or instructing the jury to disregard the answer or remark. [Citations.] And specific references in post-trial motions to the reasons why a trial judge’s actions or rulings were wrong enables [sic] him to reconsider their propriety in a less pressured environment. If an egregious error has actually occurred, the judge can order a new trial, thus avoiding the delay and expense of appellate review.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] prosecutor may properly comment unfavorably on the defendant and the violence of the crime, when supported by the evidence, and speak of the evil results of crime and the benefits of a fearless administration of the law.”
2 later decisions 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.