233 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Glasper (2009), State v. Hummel (2017)
6 federal appellate · 100 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Turner v. United States · Yates v. United States · Stromberg v. People of State of California · Griffin v. United States
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits first degree murder if, in performing the acts which cause the death: (1) he either intends to kill or do great bodily harm to that individual or another, or knows that such acts will cause death to that individual or another; or (2) he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual or another; or (3) he is attempting or committing a forcible felony other than second degree murder.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“where a defendant is charged with murder in multiple counts alleging intentional, knowing and felony murder, and a general verdict of guilty is returned, the defendant is presumed to be convicted of the most serious offense-intentional murder-so that judgment and sentence should be entered on the conviction for intentional murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“According to Illinois law, the predicate felony underlying a charge of felony murder is a lesser-included offense of felony murder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. People v. Space · People v. Melecio
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.