188 Ill. 2d 293 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 196 Ill. 2d 236 - People v. Ortiz (2001), 196 Ill. 2d 460 - People v. Knaff (2001)
37 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 Sawyer v. Whitley · 138 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Flowers · 141 Ill. 2d 163 - People v. Mink · 167 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Franklin · 108 Ill. 2d 301 - People Ex Rel. Daley v. Crilly
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.
““I simply cannot find based on the evidence that’s presented to me that the State even in the light most favorable to the State has met a prima facie case at this juncture, so I’m going to grant the motion for a directed finding and finding of not guilty as to the armed robbery as well because I believe it would have to be established that that ... there was an intention to do that prior to the killing and I don’t find that he participated in that. I find that ... the evidence established that he did not know until the gun was produced what occurred.... I don’t see that he profited other than the $20. He didn’t participate as far as taking the drugs. We don’t have him taking anything anywhere. [H]is name is not on the bus ticket. There’s nothing to indicate that the gun belonged to him or that there was any participation in the weapon. I don’t think that that would be appropriate where there’s nothing that’s established to show that there was any kind of conspiracy prior to the act if something is taken after the act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if the parties wished to provide her with legal authority. Upon the State's request to hold the portion of the ruling relating to the armed robbery charge in abeyance, the circuit court judge remarked that she needed to review legal authority on this issue, that she welcomed submissions of authority by the parties, and that she was unsure at that point whether a finding of not guilty on the armed robbery charge would be legally supportable. Upon these specific facts, we concluded that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“allow[] but then den[y] the motion for a directed verdict `virtually with the same breath,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.