128 Ill. 2d 253 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 162 Ill. 2d 465 - People v. Palmer (1994), 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner (1989)
4 federal appellate · 193 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Williams v. People of State of New York · Woodson v. North Carolina · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In situations where there is overwhelming evidence of guilt and no defense, if counsel contests all charges he is liable to lose credibility with the trier of fact when it comes to charges where a legitimate defense exists.” Johnson, 128 Ill. 2d at 270 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Claims of ineffective assistance of counsel may be disposed of on the ground that the defendant suffered no prejudice from the claimed errors, without deciding the first prong, whether the errors were serious enough to constitute less that reasonably effective assistance. [Citation.] Under the second prong of Strickland the defendant must show that there is a `reasonably probability that, absent the errors, the factfinder would have had a reasonable doubt respecting guilt.' [Citation.]"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Elam · People v. D.C.“defendant faces a high burden before he can forsake the two-part Strickland test”
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.