163 Ill. 2d 231 - People v. Kimbrough’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 173 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Warren (1996), 165 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Farmer (1995)
58 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. United States · 79 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Bradley · 152 Ill. 2d 489 - People v. Shephard · 6 Ill. 2d 152 - Heimgaertner v. Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Co. · 148 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Reed
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether the statute is reasonably designed to remedy the evils which the legislature has determined to be a threat to the public health, safety and general welfare.’ ” (People v. Bradley (1980), 79 Ill. 2d 410, 417 , quoting Heimgaertner v. Benjamin Electric Manufacturing Co. (1955), 6 Ill. 2d 152, 159 ; People v. Kimbrough (1994), 163 Ill. 2d 231, 242 ; Reed, 148 Ill. 2d at 11 .) This standard is essentially the same as the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although expressed in slightly different language, the standards used to determine the constitutionality of a statute under the due process and equal protection clauses are identical.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“class, such as race, a court will use the”
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.