191 Ill. 2d 408 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
137 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 231 Ill. 2d 169 - People v. Lucas (2008), 339 Ill. App. 3d 876 - People v. McCarter (2003)
137 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 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 91 Ill. 2d 164 - People v. Donaldson · 85 Ill. 2d 261 - People of Illinois v. Haron · 23 Ill. 2d 306 - The PEOPLE v. Nettles · 97 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Alejos
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the facts are not in dispute, defendant's guilt is a question of law, which we review de novo.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“immediate access to or timely control over”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[P]olice officers testified that they executed a search warrant at defendant’s apartment on June 22, 1994. As police approached the apartment building, they saw defendant drop a handgun out of the apartment window. The gun slid down the roof of the building’s porch and onto the ground, where police recovered it. The gun was not loaded. In the living room of the apartment, police found 2.5 grams of cocaine behind a couch and 2.1 grams of cannabis on a coffee table. Defendant was found in the bedroom near a window, the screen of which had been pushed outward. No other persons were found in the apartment, and no ammunition was discovered.” Smith, 191 Ill. 2d at 410 .”
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.