People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2023
9 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 124 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Wilk · 143 Ill. 2d 59 - People v. Wallace · 68 Ill. 2d 261 - People v. Stacey · 81 Ill. App. 3d 776 - Rome v. Commonwealth Edison Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has arrived, however, with the supreme court's decision in Wallace . We must, therefore, reject defendant's reliance on People v. Smith (1990), 198 Ill. App.3d 695 , 144 Ill.Dec. 840 , 556 N.E.2d 307 , as authority for us to give him essentially”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Phillips“we should allow his appeal because Kennedy was the court's most recent pronouncement at the time he filed his notice of appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Phillips
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.