152 Ill. App. 3d 1007 - People v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 147 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Williams (1991), Bowers v. State (1990)
81 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 · Jackson v. Denno · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer · 104 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Lynch
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, whether to present certain witnesses is a tactical decision which will not be reviewed and cannot support a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the failure to interview witnesses may indicate incompetence when trial counsel knows of the witnesses and their testimony may be exonerating.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because they served primarily to indoctrinate the jurors as to the State's theory at trial and asked them to prejudge the facts of the 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.