383 Ill. App. 3d 521 - People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 392 Ill. App. 3d 277 - People v. Walker (2009), 405 Ill. App. 3d 210 - People v. Jacobs (2010)
26 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 · Brady v. United States · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 194 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Hall
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.
“As a general rule, where a defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim requires consideration of matters not included in the record on appeal, a postconviction relief proceeding is better suited to resolve that claim and the appellate court may properly decline to adjudicate the defendant's claim on direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“irrespective of whether an offense is considered a lesser-included offense, Illinois courts have generally recognized that `[t]he decision to offer an instruction on a lesser-included offense is one of trial strategy, which has no bearing on the competency of counsel.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[f]elony murder is premised on strict liability for one who kills or is responsible for a killing during the commission of a felony'”
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.