186 Ill. 2d 67 - People v. Linder’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 195 Ill. 2d 378 - People v. Cox (2001), 242 Ill. 2d 77 - People v. Absher (2011)
153 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 174 Ill. 2d 320 - People v. Evans · 158 Ill. 2d 27 - People v. Janes · 171 Ill. 2d 469 - People v. Foster · 181 Ill. 2d 359 - People v. Shirley · 181 Ill. 2d 24 - People v. Jamison
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the sentence imposed is within the agreed[-]upon cap, as the sentences here were, allowing the defendant to seek reconsideration of his sentence without also moving to withdraw his guilty plea unfairly binds the State to the terms of the plea agreement while giving the defendant the opportunity to avoid or modify those terms. That is precisely the situation the Evans rule was designed to prevent." Linder, 186 Ill.2d at 74 , 237 Ill.Dec. 129 , 708 N.E.2d at 1172-73 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By agreeing to plead guilty in exchange for a recommended sentencing cap, a defendant is, in effect, agreeing not to challenge any sentence imposed below that cap on the grounds that it is excessive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Where a defendant fails to comply with the motion requirements of Rule 604(d), as these defendants did, the appellate court must dismiss the appeal ( People v. Jamison, 181 Ill.2d 24, 28-29 [, 228 Ill. Dec. 920 , 690 N.E.2d 995, 997 ] (1998)), leaving the Post-Conviction Hearing Act [725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 1996)] as the defendant's only recourse ( People v. Foster, 171 Ill.2d 469, 471 [, 216 Ill. Dec. 565 , 665 N.E.2d 823, 824 ] (1996))." Linder, 186 Ill.2d at 74 , 237 Ill.Dec. 129 , 708 N.E.2d at 1173 .”
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.