94 Ill. 2d 514 - People v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
208 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989), 127 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Slim (1989)
208 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 Chapman v. State of California · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Schneble v. Florida · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness’ degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness’ prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and length of time between the crime and the confrontation.’ ” People v. Rosa (1981), 93 Ill. App. 3d 1010, 1015 , 418 N.E.2d 124 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“impart substantive character to prior inconsistent statements under the guise of impeachment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“emphasized that prosecutors may not engage in inflammatory”
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.