128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 630 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 650 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2026 · most notably 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans (2004), 237 Ill. 2d 539 - People v. Hillier (2010)
6 federal appellate · 630 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 650 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” (Emphasis in original.) Jackson v. Virginia (1979), 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 61 L. Ed. 2d 560, 573 , 99 S. Ct. 2781, 2789 .”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The defendant argues that because the prosecutor did not exercise peremptory challenges to excuse white jurors on the same basis that he exercised them against black jurors, it must be assumed that the prosecution's explanations were merely a pretext to hide a racial motivation for the strikes. What the defendant argues should not be lightly dismissed. We must keep in mind, however, the nature of the peremptory challenge and the inherent problems involved in a hearing of this character. If the prosecutor excused one person and not another its does not follow that this in itself shows that the prosecutor's explanations were pretextual. Though a part of the prosecutor's explanations may have been applicable to white jurors who were not challenged, the white jurors may have, in some other respect, exhibited a trait which the prosecutor reasonably believed would make him or her desirable as a juror." People v. Young (1989), 128 Ill.2d 1, 23-24 , 131 Ill.Dec. 78 , 84, 538 N.E.2d 453, 459 ; accord Harris, 129 Ill.2d at 179-80 , 135 Ill.Dec. at 886, 544 N.E.2d at 382 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`the error is of such magnitude that the commission thereof denies the accused a fair and impartial trial.'”
3 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.