225 Ill. 2d 573 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 237 Ill. 2d 217 - Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital (2010), State v. Smith (2010)
80 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 14071 (§ 170101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Reno v. Flores · 193 Ill. 2d 413 - People v. Malchow · 186 Ill. 2d 381 - Henrich v. Libertyville High School · 201 Ill. 2d 300 - In Re Detention of Lieberman · 144 Ill. 2d 381 - People v. Adams
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the rational basis test, our inquiry is twofold: we must determine whether there is a legitimate state interest behind the legislation, and if so, whether there is a reasonable relationship between that interest and the means the legislature has chosen to pursue it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The General Assembly then chose to include aggravated kidnapping of a minor by a nonparent in the [Sex Offender Registration] Act's definition of sex offense and, consequently, to impose a registration requirement under the Act on persons convicted of such an offense, regardless of whether their conduct was sexually motivated. We will not question the wisdom of this choice. To satisfy the rational basis test, a statute need not be the best method of accomplishing a legislative goal; it must simply be reasonable....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“[i]f the legislature may impose enhanced criminal sanctions on defendants who create a risk of violence — as it does with enhanced sentences for offenses committed with firearms — it certainly may impose noncriminal registration requirements on defendants who create a risk of sexual assault”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith
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.