193 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 194 Ill. 2d 186 - People v. Chapman (2000), 204 Ill. 2d 191 - People v. Williams (2003)
4 federal appellate · 52 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Chambers v. Mississippi · Furman v. Georgia · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Zant v. Stephens
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he murder was committed in a cold, calculated and premeditated manner pursuant to a preconceived plan, scheme or design to take a human life by unlawful means, and the conduct of the defendant created a reasonable expectation that the death of a human being would result therefrom.” 720 ILCS 5/9 — l(b)(ll) (West 1998).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[T]o establish that a murder defendant is death eligible under section 9 — l(b)(ll), the State must prove more than that the murder was technically premeditated. Section 9 — 1(b) (11) requires that the murder be ‘cold,’ i.e., not motivated by mercy or the emotion of the moment, and that it be ‘calculated and premeditated, pursuant to a preconceived, plan, scheme or design,’ i.e., deliberated or reflected upon for an extended period of time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a legal term of art meaning nothing more than `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.