222 Ill. 2d 340 - People v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Johnson (2006), 223 Ill. 2d 109 - People v. McCarty (2006)
159 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 Illinois v. Allen · Estelle v. Williams · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron · Deck v. Missouri
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`must rigorously control its own courtroom procedures and, consistent with the mandates of due process, protect the rights of the parties and the public.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) a clear or obvious error occurred and the evidence is so closely balanced that the error alone threatened to tip the scales of justice against the defendant, regardless of the seriousness of the error, or (2) a clear or obvious error occurred and that error is so serious that it affected the fairness of the defendant's trial and challenged the integrity of the judicial process, regardless of the closeness of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[p]lain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.