38 Ill. 2d 321 - The PEOPLE v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 182 Ill. 2d 404 - People v. Hobley (1998), 169 Ill. 2d 355 - People v. Whitehead (1996)
5 federal appellate · 44 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 34 Ill. 2d 402 - The PEOPLE v. Ashley · People v. Jennings · 37 Ill. 2d 457 - The PEOPLE v. Armes · 21 Ill. 2d 81 - Ciucci v. THE PEOPLE · People v. Davis
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'constitutional questions which, by their nature, depend[ ] upon facts not found in the record.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Harris · People v. Smith
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.