240 Ill. App. 3d 435 - People v. Lamkey’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 332 Ill. App. 3d 96 - People v. Quintana (2002), Laster v. State (2009)
35 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 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox · 102 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Caballero · 91 Ill. 2d 346 - People v. Dixon · 59 Ill. 2d 125 - People v. Warship
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“remained within public view in the vestibule in an area clearly visible to anyone walking or driving down the street.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laster v. State“in the vestibule of a building located only a couple of steps away from one of the busiest thoroughfares in Chicago,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laster v. State
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.