92 Ill. 2d 440 - People v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably 117 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Shum (1987), 173 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Miller (1996)
92 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 Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · 62 Ill. 2d 448 - People v. McDonald · 79 Ill. 2d 129 - People v. Lindgren · 20 Ill. 2d 11 - The People v. Tranowski · 66 Ill. 2d 325 - People v. Romero
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]videntiary errors * * * can be labeled harmless * * * if properly admitted evidence is so overwhelming that no fair-minded jury could reasonably have voted to acquit the defendant.”
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.