183 Ill. 2d 130 - People v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron (2005), State v. Hale (2008)
2 district · 104 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) Aggravating Factors. A defendant who at the time of the commission of the offense has attained the age of 18 or more and who has been found guilty of first degree murder may be sentenced to death if: * * * (6) the murdered individual was killed in the course of another felony if: (a) the murdered individual: (i) was actually killed by the defendant, *** (ii) *** and (b) *** the defendant acted with the intent to kill the murdered individual or with the knowledge that his acts created a strong probability of death , or great bodily harm to the murdered individual or another-, and (c) the other felony was one of the following: armed robbery ***.” (Emphasis added.) 720 ILCS 5/9 — 1(b)(6) (West 1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“acted with the intent to kill the murdered individual or with the knowledge that his acts created a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to the murdered individual or another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“will not be overturned lightly, particularly where that decision is amply supported by the record.”
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.