166 Ill. 2d 247 - People v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
198 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 239 Ill. 2d 205 - People v. Alexander (2010), 217 Ill. 2d 407 - People v. Patterson (2005)
198 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 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox · 103 Ill. 2d 192 - People v. Jordan · 125 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. O'NEAL · 93 Ill. 2d 169 - Pedople v. Pittman
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on separately charged, differing class offenses that arise from unrelated courses of conduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A judge shall not sentence an offender to a term of imprisonment in excess of the maximum sentence authorized by Section 5-8-1 for the class of the most serious offense of which the offender was convicted unless the factors in aggravation set forth in paragraph (b) of Section 5-5-3.2 were found to be present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“greater weight than the seriousness of the offense.”
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.