137 Ill. 2d 65 - People v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 244 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron (2005), 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans (2004)
12 federal appellate · 244 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 Illinois v. Allen · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Diaz v. United States · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · United States v. Gagnon
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is constitutional because at this point in the hearing the prosecution has already proven beyond a reasonable doubt that a statutory aggravating factor exists making the defendant eligible for the death penalty ... and the jury is now weighing aggravating and mitigating factors presented by both the State and defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“So far as the Fourteenth Amendment is concerned, the presence of a defendant is a condition of due process to the extent that a fair and just hearing would be thwarted by his absence, and to that extent only”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.