305 Ill. App. 3d 607 - People v. Tate’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 316 Ill. App. 3d 901 - People v. King (2000), 352 Ill. App. 3d 73 - People v. Logan (2004)
52 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 183 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Coleman · 128 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Flores · 126 Ill. 2d 248 - People v. Caballero · 153 Ill. 2d 335 - People v. Winsett · 161 Ill. 2d 148 - People v. Thompkins
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel may be deemed ineffective for failure to present exculpatory evidence of which he is aware, including the failure to call witnesses whose testimony would support an otherwise uncorroborated defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Upshaw“it supports [the petitioner's] theory that he was misidentified, and there is no apparent strategic reason for not calling them to testify.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Upshaw“say as a matter of law that was counsel's reasoning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Upshaw
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.