203 Ill. 2d 335 - People v. Crespo’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 294 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 315 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron (2005), 235 Ill. 2d 213 - People v. Siguenza-Brito (2009)
9 federal appellate · 294 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Cotton · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King
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 315 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the indictment must indicate that the State intended to treat the conduct of [the] defendant as multiple acts in order for multiple convictions to be sustained.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seriously affected the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]efore an appellate court can correct an error not raised at trial, there must be (1) `error,' (2) that is `plain,' and (3) that `affect[s] substantial rights.'”
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.