231 Ill. 2d 51 - Beacham v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 32 - People v. Lewis (2009), 236 Ill. 2d 488 - People v. Nunez (2010)
103 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 222 Ill. 2d 422 - Marshall v. Burger King Corp. · 185 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Kliner · 156 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Davis · 168 Ill. 2d 83 - Leonardi v. Loyola University of Chicago · 209 Ill. 2d 19 - People v. Thompson
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Irrespective of the parties' arguments, the record is what it is, and, in our view, it is insufficient to demonstrate the service deficiency that defendant must establish in order to advance his argument. As far as any arguable concession is concerned, it is well established that we, as a court of review, are not bound by a party's concession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incarcerated under a judgment of a court that lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter or the person of the petitioner, or [that] there has been some occurrence subsequent to the prisoner's conviction that entitles him to release.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Round v. Lamb
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.