219 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Garvin’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 242 Ill. 2d 285 - People v. Marshall (2011), 229 Ill. 2d 545 - People v. Wear (2008)
138 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bell v. Wolfish · Schmerber v. State of California · Beck v. State of Ohio · Sandin v. Conner
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 also hold that the DNA sampling and database mandated by section 5-4-3 is constitutional both as applied in defendant's case and on its face.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. James · People v. Jones“absolve innocents, identify the guilty, deter recidivism by identifying those at a high risk of reoffending, or bring closure to victims”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Long · People v. James“the State's interest in effective crime investigations and prevention, as advanced by section 5-4-3, outweighs defendant's privacy interest as a convicted felon.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. People v. James · People v. Jones
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.