People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 261 Ill. App. 3d 700 - People v. Saunders (1994), 391 Ill. App. 3d 705 - People v. Tlatenchi (2009)
22 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 126 Ill. 2d 326 - Harrisburg-Raleigh Airport Authority v. Department of Revenue · 124 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Bates · 199 Ill. App. 3d 179 - People v. Easley · 219 Ill. App. 3d 520 - People v. Aldridge · 197 Ill. App. 3d 305 - People v. Pagel
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“individual cannot control the movement of the document after it is placed in the mailing system of the incarcerating institution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`placing the same in the institutional mail at the Menard Correctional Center this 31 [ sic ] day of Dec. 1991, to be processed as per procedure, and delivered to the addressee via United States Mail.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he time in which a court must act on a document is logically measured by the time in which that document is actually before the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.