266 Ill. App. 3d 914 - People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 203 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Belk (2003), Woodward v. State (1997)
34 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Hernandez v. New York · 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young · 157 Ill. 2d 401 - People v. Hudson · 118 Ill. 2d 163 - People v. Cisewski
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may reduce the degree of an offense to a lesser[-]included offense when the evidence fails to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the greater offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could only create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to some individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Eubanks
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.