124 Ill. 2d 166 - People v. Pegram’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 147 Ill. 2d 326 - People v. Frieberg (1992), 154 Ill. 2d 414 - People v. Patterson (1992)
89 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 · Doyle v. Ohio · Bollenbach v. United States · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 123 Ill. 2d 184 - People v. Reddick
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rosecutorial questions and remarks concerning a defendant's post-arrest silence are generally improper [citation] with exception being made for impeaching the defendant's testimony with a prior inconsistent statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“den[ied] the right of the accused to a fair trial.”
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.