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181 Ill. 2d 541 - People v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

91
cited by 91 later decisions
1
states following
July 2025
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 85 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 185 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Kliner (1998), 211 Ill. 2d 368 - People v. Harvey (2004)

4 federal appellate · 85 state decisions

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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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 153 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Stanciel · 162 Ill. 2d 450 - People v. Brandon · 167 Ill. 2d 483 - People v. Sims

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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when: * * * (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.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 391 Ill. App. 3d 11 - People v. Jackson
  2. “'[t]he imposition of an unauthorized sentence affects substantial rights' and, thus, may be considered by a reviewing court even if not properly preserved in trial court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. People v. Cox
  3. “[t]he imposition of an unauthorized sentence affects substantial rights”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 377 Ill. App. 3d 662 - People v. Calhoun

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.