People v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2024
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that Cooper (the deceased) had grabbed him, grabbed the defendant in this type of fashion, meaning grabbing both shoulders, with both hands, in this type of fashion, and then Gill, in response to that, and taken his left hand, after being grabbed on both shoulders, had taken his left hand and pushed Cooper aside in this fashion, to his left side, and then as Cooper had went by his body after he pushed him in this fashion, he had the knife in his right hand and then took the knife and put it into Cooper's back, in that fashion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The incident occurred near or in a garage close to at least two other persons, but no-one heard any noise. Defendant also stated that while over the deceased's shoulder with the butcher knife in hand,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“He (the deceased) slapped me in the head once and grabbed me. I (defendant) had a knife in my hand and stabbed him in the back. This happened by the garage, in the rear of the house.”
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.