103 Ill. 2d 133 - People v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably Smith v. Murray (1986), 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989)
9 federal appellate · 135 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 Furman v. Georgia · United States v. Frady · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No matter what your personal view is on the death penalty and how it affects society, won’t and will be served by the imposition of the death penalty in this case, and that’s the ends of justice. Justice, Ladies and Gentlemen. If this is not a proper case for the imposition of the death penalty, then there is no proper case. MR. BERRY: Objection to that remark. THE COURT: Ladies and Gentlemen, if there is an argument made not based upon the evidence, legitimate inference from that evidence, then you can disregard that.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.