104 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Barnard’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 180 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), People v. Johnson (1993)
4 federal appellate · 180 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 Strickland v. Washington · 73 Ill. 2d 7 - People v. Precup · 38 Ill. 2d 223 - Hux v. Raben · 75 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Roberts · 104 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Lynch
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The finding of not guilty of armed violence based on murder is not a finding that the defendant did not commit murder. We do not know what prompted the jury’s not guilty verdict on the armed-violence count. It could have been an expression of lenity which, of course, does not render the verdicts legally inconsistent. Frias does not require a reversal of the murder conviction in this case.” People v. Barnard (1984), 104 Ill. 2d 218, 227 , 470 N.E.2d 1005, 1007 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The trial judge was well aware of defense counsel’s reluctance to have the jury given an instruction on manslaughter. It would therefore not have been proper for the judge to interfere with defense counsel’s strategy and give the self-defense and voluntary-manslaughter instruction sua sponte.” (Emphasis added.) Barnard, 104 Ill. 2d at 232 .”
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.