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187 Ill. 2d 448 - People v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair (2002), 202 Ill. 2d 59 - People v. Collins (2002)

41 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 174 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Gaultney · 146 Ill. 2d 477 - Antunes v. Sookhakitch · 149 Ill. 2d 36 - People v. Wright

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

  1. ““After requesting and receiving leave to amend his original petition, defendant mailed the amended petition on the eighty-eighth day of the original period. Under defendant’s suggestion, the circuit court would then have had only two days to consider the merits of the amended petition. Such a truncated time frame to consider the petition would be both inadequate and unfair. Such a rule could work only to the detriment of all, including both defendants and prosecutors.” Watson, 187 Ill. 2d at 451 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 381 Ill. App. 3d 178 - People v. Ceja
  2. “[t]he court may in its discretion make such order as to amendment of the petition * * * as shall be appropriate, just and reasonable and as is generally provided in civil cases”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 362 Ill. App. 3d 440 - People v. Mauro

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.