187 Ill. 2d 418 - People v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007), 205 Ill. 2d 52 - People v. Caffey (2001)
222 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 · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Cronic · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · Bullington v. Missouri
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a default may not preclude an ineffective-assistance claim for what trial counsel allegedly ought to have done in presenting a defense.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he Illinois capital sentencing statute does not permit a court of review to usurp the jury’s role as sentencer without damaging defendant’s due process rights. [Citations.] The statute plainly states that, if a defendant elects to have a jury perform the sentencing function, the jury and the jury alone will determine defendant’s eligibility for death and whether any mitigating factor or factors should preclude capital punishment. [Citation.] By its terms, the Illinois capital sentencing statute does not permit this court to assume these responsibilities. Defendant has a liberty interest in having a jury ‘make particular findings relative to sentencing.’ [Citation.]” People v. Shaw, 186 Ill. 2d 301, 344 (1998).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Decisions concerning which witnesses to call at trial and what evidence to present on defendant’s behalf ultimately rest with trial counsel. People v. Ramey, 152 Ill. 2d 41, 53-55 (1992). These types of decisions have long been viewed as matters of trial strategy (People v. Haywood,, 82 Ill. 2d 540, 543-44 (1980)), which are generally immune from claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. People v. Guest, 166 Ill. 2d 381, 394 (1995).” People v. West, 187 Ill. 2d 418, 432 , 719 N.E.2d 664, 673 (1999).”
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.