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192 Ill. 2d 36 - People v. Pullen’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

194
cited by 194 later decisions
1
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

188 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 203 Ill. 2d 264 - People Ex Rel. Sherman v. Cryns (2003), 242 Ill. 2d 285 - People v. Marshall (2011)

188 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 121 Ill. 2d 537 - People v. Hillenbrand · 89 Ill. 2d 469 - People v. Robinson · 171 Ill. 2d 207 - People v. Thomas · 155 Ill. 2d 188 - People v. Bole · 162 Ill. 2d 282 - People v. Jameson

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

  1. “the surest and most reliable indicator of legislative intent.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Mingo · 323 Ill. App. 3d 839 - In Re KC
  2. “whether the maximum permissible sentence was 120 years—the sum of the maximum permissible extended-term sentences for two Class X offenses (730 ILCS 5/5-8-2(a)(2) (West 1994))—or 28 years—the sum of the maximum permissible extended-term sentences for two Class 2 offenses (730 ILCS 5/5-8-2(a)(4) (West 1994)).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 397 Ill. App. 3d 1067 - People v. Lee
  3. “`[T]he aggregate of consecutive sentences shall not exceed the sum of the maximum terms authorized under [s]ection 5-8-2 [of the Unified Code (730 ILCS 5/5-8-2 (West 1994))] for the [two] most serious felonies involved.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 397 Ill. App. 3d 1067 - People v. Lee

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.