372 Ill. App. 3d 605 - People v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 396 Ill. App. 3d 636 - People v. Reed (2009), 378 Ill. App. 3d 157 - People v. Sipp (2008)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · 198 Ill. 2d 541 - Simmons v. Garces · 168 Ill. 2d 420 - People v. McDonald · 183 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. DiVincenzo
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois courts have consistently held that when the defendant intends to fire a gun, points it in the general direction of his or her intended victim, and shoots, such conduct is not merely reckless ***.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Green
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.