207 Ill. 2d 68 - People v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 523 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 545 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 385 Ill. App. 3d 919 - People v. McCarter (2008), 226 Ill. 2d 135 - People v. Houston (2007)
3 federal appellate · 523 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 102 Ill. 2d 181 - People v. Krankel · 147 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Williams · 185 Ill. 2d 179 - People v. Bull · 188 Ill. 2d 365 - People v. Williams · 143 Ill. 2d 82 - People v. Nitz
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 545 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [a] trial court determines that the claim lacks merit or pertains only to matters of trial strategy, then the court need not appoint new counsel and may deny the pro se motion.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“its knowledge of defense counsel's performance at trial and the insufficiency of the defendant's allegations on their face.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Bell · People v. Mourning“conduct some type of inquiry into the underlying factual basis, if any, of a defendant's pro se posttrial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Mourning · People v. Reed
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.