106 Ill. 2d 327 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 232 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Bannister (2008), 123 Ill. 2d 322 - People v. Richardson (1988)
131 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Codispoti v. Pennsylvania · 43 Ill. 2d 256 - The People v. Sailor · 60 Ill. 2d 287 - People v. Murrell
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the State believes that the jury waiver was made on an occasion other than that suggested in the record, then the record may be supplemented, at the State's request, with the corresponding report.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every person accused of an offense shall have the right to a trial by jury unless * * * understandingly waived by defendant in open court * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Without that, we must assume that the record indications of a jury waiver are indeed based on a valid waiver.”
2 later decisions 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.