165 Ill. 2d 51 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

cited by 93 later decisions

states following

December 2025

most recently cited

86 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 209 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hopp (2004), 204 Ill. 2d 191 - People v. Williams (2003)

86 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen · 72 Ill. 2d 16 - People v. Harris · 145 Ill. 2d 441 - People v. Thingvold

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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"`Since every sane man is presumed to intend all the natural and probable consequences flowing from his own deliberate act, it follows that if one wilfully does an act, the direct and natural tendency of which is to destroy another's life, the natural and irresistible conclusion, in the absence of qualifying facts, is that the destruction of such other person's life was intended.'" Koshiol, 45 Ill.2d at 578 [ 262 N.E.2d 446 ], quoting People v. Coolidge, 26 Ill.2d 533, 537 [ 187 N.E.2d 694 ] (1963).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Carlisle · 402 Ill. App. 3d 538 - People v. Smith
“including the character of the assault and the nature and seriousness of the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Reed · People v. Jamison
“Because intent is a state of mind, it can rarely be proved by direct evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Smith · 350 Ill. Dec. 978 - People v. Farmer

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.