139 Ill. App. 3d 859 - People v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 149 Ill. 2d 71 - People v. Hampton (1992), 225 Ill. App. 3d 636 - People v. Anderson (1992)
33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Butler · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · Cohen v. United States · Albanese v. Illinois
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A more severe sentence may not be imposed because a defendant refuses to abandon his claim of innocence....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kamana'o
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.