148 Ill. 2d 45 - People v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2022
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Strickland v. Washington · Franks v. Delaware · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Colorado v. Connelly · Hoffa v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The defendant had a lengthy criminal history, however, and he committed the murder charged here only two months after his parole from prison. Apparently believing that the defendant’s personal history provided little, if any, mitigation, counsel chose to argue to the sentencing judge that the evidence of the defendant’s guilt for this offense should not form the basis for a death sentence. Counsel’s strategic decision is entitled to deference ***.” Griffin, 148 Ill. 2d at 64-65 (Miller, C.J., specially concurring, joined by Freeman, J.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the deprivation of an individual’s liberty based upon false testimony is contrary to fundamental principles of fairness in a civilized society.” (People v. Cihlar (1986), 111 Ill. 2d 212, 216-17 ; see also Napue v. Illinois (1959), 360 U.S. 264 , 3 L. Ed. 2d 1217 , 79 S. Ct. 1173 ; Giglio v. United States (1972), 405 U.S. 150 , 31 L. Ed. 2d 104 , 92 S. Ct. 763 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.