87 Ill. App. 3d 693 - People v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 165 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Lewis (1995), 167 W. Va. 252 - State v. Payne (1981)
30 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 Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Addington v. Texas · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · 76 Ill. 2d 19 - People v. Baptist · Sobell v. Attorney General
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, while evidence that defendant was aware that he was a suspect is essential to prove flight (People v. Herbert (1935), 361 Ill. 64 , 196 N.E. 821 ), actual knowledge of his possible arrest is not necessary to render such evidence admissible where there is evidence from which such fact may be inferred. Griffin; People v. Torres (1977), 53 Ill. App. 3d 171 , 368 N.E.2d 361 .” ( 87 Ill. App. 3d 693, 699 , 409 N.E.2d 344, 348 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Burns
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.