217 Ill. 2d 324 - People v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
305 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 318 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hodges (2009), 227 Ill. 2d 247 - People v. Delton (2008)
305 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · 183 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Coleman · United States v. LaBonte · 202 Ill. 2d 59 - 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 318 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the allegations in the petition, liberally construed in light of the trial record, fail to make a substantial showing of a constitutional violation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`objective or independent corroboration.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the trial court's admonitions cannot be disregarded as a mere formality, they are not sufficient in every circumstance to negate the effect of erroneous advice from defense counsel.”
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.