122 Ill. 2d 313 - People v. Geever’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Osborne v. Ohio (1990), 235 Ill. 2d 319 - People v. Ortiz (2009)
43 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 Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · New York v. Ferber · Stanley v. Georgia · Bowers v. Hardwick
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where such child is: (vii) depicted or portrayed in any pose, posture or setting involving a lewd exhibition of the genitals of the child or other person.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 11 — 20.1(a).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A trier of fact need not find that the material appeals to the prurient interest of the average person; it is not required that the sexual conduct portrayed be done so in a patently offensive manner; and the material at issue need not be considered as a whole.” People v. Geever, 122 Ill. 2d at 323 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he State [citation], under our Rule 603 [citation], directly appealed the dismissals to this court”
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.