209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
749 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 769 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 235 Ill. 2d 213 - People v. Siguenza-Brito (2009), 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007)
749 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Hoffa v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins
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 769 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel's deficient performance, there is a reasonable probability that the result of the proceeding would have been different. Colon, 225 Ill.2d at 135 , 310 Ill.Dec. 396 , 866 N.E.2d 207 ; Evans, 209 Ill.2d at 220 , 283 Ill.Dec. 651 , 808 N.E.2d 939 .”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] reasonable probability that the result would have been different is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcomeor put another way, that counsel's deficient performance rendered the result of the trial unreliable or fundamentally unfair.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.