165 Ill. 2d 125 - People v. Knuckles’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Sutherland (2006), 196 Ill. 2d 269 - People v. Wagener (2001)
4 federal appellate · 29 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 Ake v. Oklahoma · United States v. Zolin · Allen v. Illinois · 97 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Williams · 41 Ill. 2d 177 - The People v. Speck
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]e hold that the attorney-client privilege applies to communications between the defense and nontestifying mental health experts retained by the defense to probe the defendant’s mental condition in anticipation of relevant defenses. We further hold that the privilege is not waived merely by the assertion of defenses which place the defendant’s mental condition in issue. Finally, we decline to adopt a generalized public interest exception in the case at bar to allow the State’s interest in gathering evidence to overcome the attorney-client privilege.” Knuckles, 165 Ill. 2d at 145 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to fully investigate their clients' cases”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Selby v. O'Dea
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.