187 Ill. 2d 461 - People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005), 224 Ill. 2d 37 - People v. Suarez (2007)
39 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 40 Ill. 2d 193 - Maki v. Frelk · Prall v. Burckhartt · 74 Ill. 2d 44 - People v. Mazzone · 15 Ill. 2d 182 - Kinsey Distilling Sales Co. v. FOREMOST LIQUORS STORES, INC. · 298 Ill. App. 3d 866 - People v. Robinson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the purpose of criminal prosecutions is to punish the defendant; continuing criminal proceedings when the *Page 919 defendant is dead is a useless act”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`merely because the court is of the opinion that it might decide otherwise were the question a new one.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be deemed controlling until and unless the General Assembly provides otherwise”
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.