192 Ill. 2d 202 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger (2002), 229 Ill. 2d 34 - People v. Perkins (2008)
30 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 McCarty Ranch Trust v. Craig · 153 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Flores · 187 Ill. 2d 406 - People v. Turner · 119 Ill. 2d 119 - People v. Johnson · James v. Butler
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n attorney who files a brief that is so fundamentally deficient that it precludes review by the supreme court has not provided a reasonable level of assistance.”
2 later decisions 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.