169 Ill. App. 3d 1 - People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2025
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Faretta v. California · Edwards v. Arizona · Illinois v. Allen · 101 Ill. 2d 147 - People v. Silagy · 92 Ill. 2d 85 - People v. Baker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[A] defendant may competently waive counsel if such an election is voluntary and constitutes “a knowing and intelligent relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.” ’ People v. Baker (1982), 92 Ill. 2d 85, 91 , quoting Edwards v. Arizona (1981), 451 U. S. 477, 482 , 68 L. Ed. 2d 378, 385 , 101 S. Ct. 1880, 1883 . * * * In ruling on a motion for self-representation, the trial court must determine whether the defendant has the requisite capacity to make an intelligent and knowing waiver of his right to counsel. The criteria generally considered in making that decision include the defendant’s age, level of education, mental capacity and prior involvement, if any, in legal proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.