222 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 235 Ill. 2d 97 - People v. Lovejoy (2009), 241 Ill. 2d 44 - People v. Baez (2011)
48 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 · Ornelas v. United States · Gregg v. Georgia · Furman v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he rules announced in Apprendi and Ring are not applicable to the second phase of a death penalty proceeding in Illinois because the trier of fact has already found beyond a reasonable doubt the necessary aggravating factor for imposition of the death penalty and therefore cannot increase the penalty beyond the statutory maximum of death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A defendant's character, prior criminal history, mental capacity, background, age, and future dangerousness are just a few of the factors a trier of fact may consider in fixing the appropriate punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.