217 Ill. 2d 210 - People v. Lyles’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 34 - People v. Perkins (2008), 229 Ill. 2d 255 - People v. Ross (2008)
89 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · 208 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. Flowers · 106 Ill. 2d 373 - People v. Lyles · 156 Ill. 2d 288 - McDunn v. Williams · 158 Ill. 2d 143 - Mitchell v. Fiat-Allis, Inc.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'attaches only upon compliance with the rules governing appeals,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no discretion to take any action other than dismissing the appeal.”
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.