118 Ill. 2d 407 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 165 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Lewis (1995), 154 Ill. 2d 272 - People v. Ward (1992)
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 Manson v. Brathwaite · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 67 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Manion · 94 Ill. 2d 514 - People v. Bryant · 48 Ill. 2d 56 - The PEOPLE v. Catlett
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.
““Whether the defendant took the necklace from the victim’s person or whether he picked it up off the floor after committing the assault, we believe that in this case there was the necessary concurrence between the defendant’s use or threat of force and his taking of the necklace to give rise to the offense of armed robbery under the statute.” (Williams, 118 Ill. 2d at 416 , 515 N.E.2d at 1234-35 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We do not believe that the instant case is governed by Tiller, for here the offenses were essentially a single series of continuous acts committed by the defendant. *** In the assault, the defendant bound, gagged, and blindfolded the victim, struck her and raped her, and threatened to kill her. Whether the defendant took the necklace from the victim’s person or whether he picked it up off the floor after committing the assault, we believe that in this case there was the necessary concurrence between the defendant’s use or threat of force and his taking of the necklace to give rise to the offense of armed robbery under the statute.” Williams, 118 Ill. 2d at 416 .”
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.