206 Ill. 2d 218 - People v. Pulliam’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Sanchez (2011), People v. Westley A.F. (2010)
30 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Atkins v. Virginia · Estelle v. Smith · Ford v. Wainwright
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where it is possible to resolve an ineffective assistance claim on the basis of the second prong of the testthat the [respondent] suffered no prejudice as a result of counsel's allegedly defective performancethe claim may be decided against the [respondent] without consideration of whether counsel's performance was actually deficient.”
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.