142 Ill. 2d 13 - People v. Streit’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
337 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 343 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 193 Ill. 2d 203 - People v. Stacey (2000), 239 Ill. 2d 205 - People v. Alexander (2010)
337 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 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 61 Ill. 2d 583 - People v. Bolyard · 56 Ill. 2d 432 - People v. Dukett · 125 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. O'NEAL · 93 Ill. 2d 169 - Pedople v. Pittman
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 343 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'defendant's credibility, demeanor, general moral character, mentality, social environment, and age.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brown · People v. Barnes“[i]n considering the propriety of a sentence, the reviewing court must proceed with great caution and must not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court merely because it would have weighed the factors differently”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the province of the trial court to balance these factors and make a reasoned decision as to the appropriate punishment in each case.”
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.