217 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Christopher K.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 109 - People v. McCarty (2006), 228 Ill. 2d 137 - People v. Slater (2008)
3 federal appellate · 136 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Baker v. Carr · Edwards v. Arizona · Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we will not read exceptions, conditions, or limitations into a statute that the legislature did not express if the statutory language is clear and unambiguous,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Mm“the United States Supreme Court has left open the issue of whether the objective test applies in a pre-waiver setting,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[n]ullification of a conviction may hold important consequences for a defendant,”
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.