185 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms (2000), 235 Ill. 2d 478 - People v. McLaurin (2009)
63 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Lockett v. Ohio
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The correct inquiry is whether, assuming that the damaging potential of the cross-examination were fully realized, a reviewing court might nonetheless say that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Whether such an error is harmless in a particular case depends upon a host of factors, all readily accessible to reviewing courts. These factors include the importance of the witness’ testimony in the prosecution’s case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution’s case.’ ” Davis, 185 Ill. 2d at 338 , quoting Van Arsdall, 475 U.S. at 684 , 89 L. Ed. 2d at 686-87 , 106 S. Ct. at 1438 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]pplication of the waiver rule * * * is less rigid where the basis for the objection is the circuit court's conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the basis for defendant's claim is the circuit judge's alleged refusal to consider certain mitigating evidence at defendant's death penalty hearing, which concerns the fundamental fairness of that proceeding, we review the claim for error.”
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.