204 Ill. 2d 191 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 237 Ill. 2d 217 - Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (2010), 223 Ill. 2d 109 - People v. McCarty (2006)
143 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 194 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Hall · 169 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Keene · 139 Ill. 2d 264 - People v. Enis · 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Continuances obtained in connection with the trial of the original charges cannot be attributed to defendants with respect to the new and additional charges because these new and additional charges were not before the court when those continuances were obtained.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]he State could lull the defendant into acquiescing to pretrial delays on pending charges, while it prepared for a trial on more serious, not-yet-pending charges. * * * When the State filed the more serious charges, the defendant would face a Hobson's choice between a trial without adequate preparation and further pretrial detention to prepare for trial.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[C]omments in a judicial opinion that are unnecessary to the disposition of the case, but involve an issue briefed and argued by the parties . . . have the force of a determination by a reviewing court and should receive dispositive weight in an inferior court.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.