143 Ill. 2d 477 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 167 Ill. 2d 210 - People v. Bailey (1995), 163 Ill. 2d 263 - People v. C.R.H. (1994)
28 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 82 Ill. 2d 556 - People v. Youngbey · 108 Ill. 2d 182 - People v. Bales · 106 Ill. 2d 135 - Bell v. Louisville & NashVille Railroad · 131 Ill. 2d 525 - People v. Felella · 113 Ill. 2d 36 - People v. Joseph
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o branch shall exercise powers properly belonging to another”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall” is generally indicative of a mandatory intent). The State contends the amendment requires us to say any error in sentencing was waived by the defendant’s inaction. That will be true in most cases. Not all. Not this one. Supreme Court Rule 615 provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`directly and irreconcilably conflicts with a rule of this court on a matter within the court's authority,'”
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.