341 Ill. App. 3d 379 - People v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 361 Ill. App. 3d 836 - People v. Hamilton (2005), 367 Ill. App. 3d 304 - People v. Woodard (2006)
63 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 · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 169 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Keene · 66 Ill. 2d 261 - People v. Boose · 141 Ill. 2d 323 - People v. House
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant presents a pro se posttrial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the operative concern for the reviewing court is whether the trial court conducted an adequate inquiry into the pro se defendant's allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[N]either mistakes in strategy nor the fact that another attorney with the benefit of hindsight would have handled the case differently indicates that [trial counsel] was incompetent.' [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Gale“A trial court's finding that it is unnecessary to appoint new counsel will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is manifestly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.