175 Ill. 2d 412 - People v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005), 226 Ill. 2d 63 - People v. Hauschild (2007)
67 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 United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · 102 Ill. 2d 201 - People v. Taylor · 163 Ill. 2d 250 - People v. Hickman · 167 Ill. 2d 210 - People v. Bailey
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the seriousness of the offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`Generally, prosecutorial discretion is a valuable aspect of the criminal justice system. [Citation.] In the present case, however, prosecutorial discretion will effectively nullify the aggravated kidnapping statute, as skilled State's Attorneys will usually seek the more severe sentence and, therefore, charge defendants with armed violence rather than aggravated kidnapping. An ineffective aggravated kidnapping statute is not what the legislature intended when it enacted both the armed violence statute and aggravated kidnapping statutes.' Christy, 139 Ill.2d at 180 [ 151 Ill.Dec. 315 , 564 N.E.2d 770 ]." Lewis, 175 Ill.2d at 417 , 222 Ill.Dec. 296 , 677 N.E.2d 830 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Because the mandatory minimum penalty for armed violence predicated on robbery committed with a category I weapon violates the constitutional guarantee of proportionate sentencing, the State's Attorney had no authority to charge that offense." Lewis, 175 Ill.2d at 423 , 222 Ill.Dec. 296 , 677 N.E.2d 830 .”
2 later decisions 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.