122 Ill. 2d 367 - People v. Free’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), 153 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Flores (1992)
2 federal appellate · 94 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 Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Frady · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Booth v. Maryland
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny claim of substantial denial of constitutional rights not raised in the original or an amended petition is waived.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a ruling on a post-conviction petition has res judicata effect with respect to all claims that were raised or could have been raised in the initial petition.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`one complete opportunity to show a substantial denial of his constitutional rights,'”
2 later decisions 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.