People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2026
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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · 178 Ill. 2d 509 - People v. Curry · 196 Ill. 2d 269 - People v. Wagener · 196 Ill. 2d 518 - People v. Carney · 149 Ill. 2d 118 - People v. Johnson
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.
““Cases finding the existence of severe bodily injury include: People v. Johnson, 149 Ill. 2d 118 , 594 N.E.2d 253 (1992) (victim shot in the shoulder, in the hospital the next day); People v. Kelley, 331 Ill. App. 3d 253 , 770 N.E.2d 1130 (2002) (victim shot twice in the right arm, hospitalized for three days); People v, Austin, 328 Ill. App. 3d 798 , 767 N.E.2d 433 (2002) (victim shot in the back and grazed on the side of the head near his left ear, injuries that required overnight hospitalization); People v. Amaya, 321 Ill. App. 3d 923 , 748 N.E.2d 1251 (2001) (one victim shot in the stomach, the other in the back; both required surgery and a lengthy hospital stay, the bullet remaining in one victim at the time of trial); People v. Primm, 319 Ill. App. 3d 411 , 745 N.E.2d 13 (2000) (victim shot in the back of his left thigh, taken to the hospital); People v. Strader, 278 Ill. App. 3d 876 , 663 N.E.2d 511 (1996) (victim struck by three bullets from defendant’s rifle, one of them removed surgically); People v. Townes, 94 Ill. App. 3d 850, 855 , 419 N.E.2d 604 [, 607] (1981) (victim’s face was ‘ “beaten up,” ’ eye almost swollen closed, X rays ordered by doctors to investigate possible bone damage). Cases finding a failure to prove severe bodily injury include: People v. Jones, 323 Ill. App. 3d 451 , 752 N.E.2d 511 (2001) (bullet grazed victim’s right cheek bone, receiving a band-aid from a doctor but no other medical attention); People v. Rice, 321 Ill. App. 3d 475 , 747 N.E.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court shall not impose consecutive sentences for offenses which were committed as part of a single course of conduct during which there was no substantial change in the nature of the criminal objective, unless, one of the offenses for which defendant was convicted was a Class X or Class 1 felony and the defendant inflicted severe bodily injury * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Johnson
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.