344 Ill. App. 3d 334 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 371 Ill. App. 3d 382 - People v. Ward (2007), 217 Ill. 2d 449 - People v. Henderson (2005)
38 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 177 Ill. 2d 389 - People v. Reed · 145 Ill. 2d 240 - People v. Davis · 45 Ill. 2d 326 - The PEOPLE v. Morehead · 181 Ill. 2d 24 - People v. Jamison · 58 Ill. 2d 57 - People v. Dudley
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In hearings on pleas of guilty, or in any case in which the defense offers to stipulate that the evidence is sufficient to convict, there must be substantial compliance with the following: (a) Admonitions to Defendant. The court shall not accept a plea of guilty or a stipulation that the evidence is sufficient to convict without first, by addressing the defendant personally in open court, informing him of and determining that he understands the following: (1) the nature of the charge; (2) the minimum and maximum sentence prescribed by law, including, when applicable, the penalty to which the defendant may be subjected because of prior convictions or consecutive sentences; (3) that the defendant has the right to plead not guilty, or to persist in that plea if it has already been made, or to plead guilty; and (4) that if he pleads guilty there will not be a trial of any kind, so that by pleading guilty he waives the right to a trial by jury and the right to be confronted with the witnesses against him; or that by stipulating the evidence is sufficient to convict, he waives the right to a trial by jury and the right to be confronted with any witnesses against him who have not testified. (b) Determining Whether the Plea is Voluntary. The court shall not accept a plea of guilty without first determining that the plea is voluntary. If the tendered plea is the result of a plea agreement, the agreement shall be stated in open court. The court, by questioning the defendant personally”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Likewise, we find that defendant was not prejudiced by the trial court's failure to properly admonish defendant of the steps necessary to challenge his sentence on appeal. Since defendant raised no challenge to his sentence in this appeal, his ability to raise a sentencing issue on appeal was not compromised or limited by the actions of the trial court. Thus, defendant suffered no prejudice from the lack of proper admonishment. To require remand in the instant matter, so defendant could hear the steps necessary to challenge an issue [which] he has no basis to challenge, would elevate form over substance without serving the ends of real justice. For this exercise in futility, we see no need.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whether reversal is required for an imperfect [Rule 402] admonishment depends on whether real justice has been denied or whether the defendant has been prejudiced by the inadequate admonishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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