192 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 273 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 297 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 211 Ill. 2d 395 - People v. Santos (2004), 195 Ill. 2d 437 - People v. Orange (2001)
3 federal appellate · 273 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Brinegar v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio
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 297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must demonstrate that 'his attorney's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`animosity, hostility, ill will, or distrust towards this defendant.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome'”
3 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.