109 Ill. 2d 403 - People v. Boyt’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 174 Ill. 2d 320 - People v. Evans (1996), State v. Warren (1989)
55 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 106 Ill. 2d 441 - People v. Starks
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plea bargaining plays an important role in our criminal justice system. *** [W]hen [it is] properly administered, [it] is to be encouraged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Williams
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.