128 Ill. 2d 111 - People v. Odle’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably 141 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Smith (1990), 142 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Steidl (1991)
68 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Zant v. Stephens · Godfrey v. Georgia · Maynard v. Cartwright
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the murdered individual was under 12 years of age and the death resulted from exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(b)(7).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““When the defense of insanity is presented during a trial, the Criminal Code specifically places on the State the burden of proving every element of the underlying offense beyond a reasonable doubt, and states that the jury may not consider the issue of defendant’s sanity unless and until it first finds that the State has proven the defendant guilty of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. [Citation.] Furthermore, Supreme Court Rule 233 provides that ‘[t]he parties shall proceed at all stages of the trial, including *** opening and closing statements ***, in the order in which they appear in the pleadings unless otherwise agreed by all parties or ordered by the court.’ (107 Ill. 2d R. 233.) Pursuant to Rule 233, the State had the right to proceed first during closing arguments unless otherwise agreed or ordered by the court. [Citation.]” People v. Odie, 128 Ill. 2d 111, 132-33 , 538 N.E.2d 428 (1988).”
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.