215 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
188 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 195 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 221 Ill. 2d 234 - In Re Donald AG (2006), 233 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Sutton (2009)
188 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 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans · 214 Ill. 2d 206 - People v. Collins · 105 Ill. 2d 310 - People v. Steppan · 195 Ill. 2d 291 - In Re RC · 146 Ill. 2d 1 - People Ex Rel. Daley v. Datacom Systems Corp.
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 195 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“point raised in a brief but not supported by citation to relevant authority * * * is therefore forfeited”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A reviewing court is entitled to have issues clearly defined with relevant authority cited”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““When reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence of a criminal conviction, it is not the function of [a reviewing] court to retry the defendant. [Citation.] The 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.