331 Ill. App. 3d 239 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2025
18 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 · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms · 175 Ill. 2d 294 - People v. Pecoraro
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]vidence that a defendant discharged a firearm in the direction of another individual, either with malice or total disregard for human life, is sufficient to support a conviction for attempted first degree murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Peters
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.