172 Ill. 2d 169 - People v. Burrows’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 212 Ill. 2d 148 - People v. Morgan (2004), 204 Ill. 2d 536 - People v. Simpson (2001)
1 federal appellate · 53 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 Legg v. United Markets International, Inc. · Tanner v. United States · 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland · 171 Ill. 2d 475 - People v. Washington · 142 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Steidl
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence offered by the defendant [in a PCR proceeding] must be of such convincing character that it would likely change the outcome of the trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Barrows
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.