205 Ill. 2d 308 - People v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
192 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron (2005), 217 Ill. 2d 177 - People v. Whitfield (2005)
192 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 · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Enmund v. Florida · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In recognition of the variety of factors that go into any determination of trial strategy, * * * claims of ineffective assistance of counsel must be judged on a circumstance-specific basis, viewed not in hindsight, but from the time of counsel's conduct, and with great deference accorded counsel's decisions on review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The function of instructions is to convey to the jurors the correct principles of law applicable to the facts so that they can arrive at a correct conclusion according to the law and the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Wright“[w]hether reversal is required depends on whether real justice has been denied or whether defendant has been prejudiced by the inadequate admonishment.”
1 later decision 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.