206 Ill. 2d 381 - People v. Tenner’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 427 - People v. Blair (2005), 235 Ill. 2d 319 - People v. Ortiz (2009)
6 federal appellate · 183 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · 183 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Coleman · Berkery v. Commissioner · 205 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Pitsonbarger · Byrne v. United States
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The collateral estoppel doctrine has three requirements: (1) the court rendered a final judgment in the prior case; (2) the party against whom estoppel is asserted was a party or in privity with a party in the prior case; and (3) the issue decided in the prior case is identical with the one presented in the instant case.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from 'taking two bites out of the same appellate apple.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brown · People v. Brown“[T]he doctrine applies when a party * * * participates in two separate and consecutive cases arising on different causes of action and some controlling fact or question material to the determination of both causes has been adjudicated against that party in the former suit by a court of competent jurisdiction.”
3 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.