99 Ill. App. 2d 281 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Gray v. State (1969), 5 Ill. App. 3d 158 - People v. Mostafa (1971)
3 federal appellate · 38 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The reason for the reversal should thus control the decision as to whether or not there should be another trial.” 99 Ill. App. 2d 281, 302 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Because of the nature of the crime, reviewing courts are charged with an extraordinarily high standard of care in examining the evidence in a rape case. [Citations.] When the charge is denied and the conviction depends upon the testimony of the complaining witness, it must be corroborated by evidence of other facts and circumstances unless her testimony is clear and convincing. [Citations.] * * * [A]pplication of the principles set forth above requires that the evidence be subjected to close scrutiny. [Citation.]" (Emphasis added.)”
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.