89 Ill. App. 3d 1106 - People v. Bitner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 104 Ill. App. 3d 436 - People v. Pavic (1982), 142 Ill. App. 3d 1034 - Marriage of Blaisdell v. Blaisdell (1986)
37 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 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 72 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Murphy · 73 Ill. 2d 7 - People v. Precup · 53 Ill. 2d 585 - People v. Harvey
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who is not a peace officer acting in the line of duty commits home invasion when without authority he or she knowingly enters the dwelling place of another when he or she knows or has reason to know that one or more persons is present and (1) While armed with a dangerous weapon uses force or threatens the imminent use of force upon any person or persons -within such dwelling place whether or not injury occurs, or (2) Intentionally causes any injury to any person or persons within such dwelling place.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 12-11.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““To have committed a home invasion, defendant had to have caused an injury to a person or persons within the dwelling. While injury and bodily harm are not identical, it is clear that to cause an injury within the meaning of the home-invasion statute, one must cause bodily harm, thus committing a battery. Thus, whenever a person violates the home-invasion statute, he simultaneously commits a battery.””
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.