112 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. Britz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably 123 Ill. 2d 113 - People v. Harris (1988), 142 Ill. 2d 548 - People v. Lawler (1991)
1 federal appellate · 37 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 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 103 Ill. 2d 472 - People v. Zehr · 87 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Kincaid · 76 Ill. 2d 418 - People v. Fife
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explicitly prohibited questions during the voir dire examination which `directly or indirectly concern[ed] matters of law or instructions.' (87 Ill.2d R. 234.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the holding in Zehr represented a change in Illinois law it is given prospective application.”
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.