326 Ill. App. 3d 914 - People v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably 379 Ill. App. 3d 941 - People v. Gonzalez (2008), 333 Ill. App. 3d 971 - People v. Ollie (2002)
48 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Bruton v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Lee v. Illinois
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant admitted that at the outset and throughout the crime, his intent was to rob the victim of drugs. Within the course of a few minutes, defendant, and those for whose actions he was held criminally responsible, entered [the victim]’s home by force, threatened him with a weapon, shot him, and stole his drugs. To parse out the crimes into bounded acts would contradict the reality that these crimes were intertwined both temporally and functionally.” Sample, 326 Ill. App. 3d at 928 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the testimony should be limited to the fact that there was a conversation without disclosing its content, and to what the police did after the conversation concluded,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sardin“the repetition of strong inferences that his co-defendants implicated defendant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sardin
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.