384 Ill. App. 3d 437 - People v. Lemke’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2025
13 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 · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 217 Ill. 2d 407 - People v. Patterson · 98 Ill. 2d 294 - People v. Bartall · 141 Ill. 2d 40 - People v. Smith
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A defendant commits first-degree murder under section 9 — 1(a)(2) of the Criminal Code of 1961 when in performing the acts that cause the death of an individual, ‘he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm.’ 720 ILCS 5/9 — 1(a)(2) (West 2000). *** ‘[inferences as to [a] defendant’s mental state are a matter particularly within the province of the jury.’ [Citation.] It is well established that proof that a death resulted from a defendant’s act of deliberately firing a gun in the general direction of his victim is sufficient to sustain a conviction for first-degree murder under section 9 — 1(a)(2). [Citations.] That is the case because it is not necessary to prove that the defendant had a specific intent to kill or do great bodily harm or that he knew with certainty that his acts would achieve murderous results. [Citation.] A person who is aware that his acts create a strong probability of death to another may be found guilty of first-degree murder under section 9 — 1(a)(2) even if the victim’s death was ‘caused “unintentionally.” ’ [Citation.]””
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.