205 Ill. 2d 480 - People v. Peeples’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 226 Ill. 2d 135 - People v. Houston (2007), 227 Ill. 2d 403 - People v. Manning (2008)
116 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 · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Estelle v. Williams · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Kentucky v. Stincer
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant must demonstrate that counsel's performance was objectively unreasonable under prevailing professional norms and that there is a `reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Guja · People v. Irvine“When assessing the use of various practices or procedures in the courtroom, `[c]ourts must do the best they can to evaluate the likely effects of a particular procedure, based on reason, principle, and common human experience.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`courts must be alert to factors that may undermine the fairness of the fact-finding process' and must `carefully guard against dilution of the principle that guilt is to be established by probative evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Moore
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.