212 Ill. 2d 192 - People v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
344 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 353 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 458 - People v. Pendleton (2006), 215 Ill. 2d 427 - People v. Blair (2005)
344 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 Anders v. California · Ross v. Moffitt · McCoy v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District 1 · 187 Ill. 2d 406 - People v. Turner · 122 Ill. 2d 64 - People v. Porter
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 353 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not require counsel to advance frivolous or spurious claims on defendant's behalf.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an attorney moving to withdraw should make some effort to explain why defendant's claims are frivolous or patently without merit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that are necessary for an adequate presentation of [defendant's] contentions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Smith · People v. Hayes
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.