147 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 158 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), 153 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Flores (1992)
4 federal appellate · 152 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 Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · Gregg v. Georgia · Griffin v. California · Witherspoon 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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Payne [v. Tennessee (1991), 501 U.S. 808 , 115 L. Ed. 2d 720 , 111 S. Ct. 2597 ,] the Court declared that 'a State may properly conclude that for the jury to assess meaningfully the defendant’s moral culpability and blameworthiness, it should have before it at the sentencing phase evidence of the specific harm caused by the defendant.’ (Payne, 501 U.S. at 825 , 115 L. Ed. 2d at 735 , 111 S. a. at 2608.) We agree with the Court that such evidence is relevant to a consideration of the appropriate punishment for a capital defendant. Accordingly, we now choose to align ourselves with the Court rule on this subject.” (Howard, 147 Ill. 2d at 158 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence““[I]f the independent evidence tends to prove that an offense occurred, then such evidence, if corroborative of the facts contained in the confession, may be considered along with the confession in establishing the corpus delicti. In such event, the independent evidence need not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that an offense did occur.” (Emphasis in original.) People v. Willingham (1982), 89 Ill. 2d 352, 361 , 432 N.E.2d 861 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“established the corpus delicti of the attempted armed robbery charge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sargent
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.