209 Ill. App. 3d 709 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 220 Ill. App. 3d 848 - People v. Harris (1991), 316 Ill. App. 3d 919 - People v. Long (2000)
33 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox · 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Improper comments include those which reflect disbelief in the testimony of defense witnesses, confidence in the credibility of the prosecution witnesses or an assumption of defendant’s guilt. In addition, a hostile attitude toward defense counsel or remarks that defense counsel has presented his case in an improper manner may also be prejudicial and erroneous.” People v. Williams (1991), 209 Ill. App. 3d 709, 718 . Improper comments may also be harmless error. Defendant must therefore show that the complained-of remarks prejudiced him.”
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.