197 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 789 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 817 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hodges (2009), 223 Ill. 2d 458 - People v. Pendleton (2006)
7 federal appellate · 789 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anders v. California · Brady v. United States · Neitzke v. Williams · United States v. Cronic
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 817 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the petition and any accompanying documentation make a substantial showing of a constitutional violation.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the petition is frivolous or is patently without merit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`need only present a limited amount of detail'”
4 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.