119 Ill. 2d 465 - People v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

125

cited by 125 later decisions

states following

December 2025

most recently cited

123 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans (2004), 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997)

123 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 Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox · 19 Cal. 3d 182 - Solberg v. Superior Court · 112 Ill. 2d 273 - O'CONNELL v. St. Francis Hospital · 102 Ill. 2d 201 - People v. Taylor

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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“division of governmental powers into rigid, mutually exclusive compartments.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 355 Ill. Dec. 1 - People v. Hammond · 325 Ill. App. 3d 393 - In Re Curtis B.
“where a rule of this court on a matter within the court's authority and a statute on the same subject conflict, the rule will prevail”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 175 Ill. 2d 471 - In Re SG · 175 Ill. 2d 471 - People v. Pearlie G.
““The automatic-substitution-of-judge provision makes clear that its protections may be invoked only after assignment is made and then only ‘within 10 days after’ the case has been placed on the trial calendar of the assigned judge.” (Emphasis in original.) Walker, 119 Ill. 2d at 477 , 519 N.E.2d at 894 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 217 Ill. App. 3d 791 - People v. Williams · 124 Ill. 2d 300 - 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.