385 Ill. App. 3d 359 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Williams v. Illinois (2012), 237 Ill. 2d 490 - People v. Petrenko (2010)
24 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 Crawford v. Washington · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Tennessee v. Street · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 185 Ill. 2d 532 - 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A reviewing court is entitled to have issues clearly defined with pertinent authority cited and cohesive arguments presented [citation], and it is not a repository into which an appellant may foist the burden of argument and research [citation]; it is neither the function nor the obligation of this court to act as an advocate or search the record for error.’ ” People v. Williams, 385 Ill. App. 3d 359, 368 , 895 N.E.2d 961, 968 (2008), quoting Obert v. Saville, 253 Ill. App. 3d 677, 682 , 624 N.E.2d 928, 931 (1993).”
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.