171 Ill. 2d 367 - People v. Batchelor’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 193 Ill. 2d 306 - People v. Williams (2000), 194 Ill. 2d 419 - People v. Cooper (2000)
6 federal appellate · 52 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 136 Ill. 2d 27 - People v. Reid · 138 Ill. 2d 434 - People v. Furby · 164 Ill. 2d 131 - People v. Taylor · 144 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Pecoraro · 159 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Kitchen
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.
““(c) Either before or during the commission of an offense, and with the intent to promote or facilitate such commission, he solicits, aids, abets, agrees or attempts to aid, such other person in the planning or commission of the offense.” 720 ILCS 5/5 — 2(c) (West 1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the defendant's presence during the commission of the offense, the defendant's continued close affiliation with other offenders after the commission of the crime, the defendant's failure to report the incident, and the defendant's flight from the scene.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the circumstances surrounding the perpetration of the unlawful conduct,”
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.