Illinois v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1,447 federal appellate · 97 district · 3,131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,552 later decisions (87 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Faretta v. California (1975), Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. (1991)
1,447 federal appellate · 97 district · 3,131 state decisions — followed in 50 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Allen v. Illinois (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Pointer v. Texas · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Mooney v. Holohan
Cited together with Faretta v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Chapman v. State of California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Strickland v. Washington
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 5,552 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant can lose his right to be present at trial if, after he has been warned by the judge that he will be removed if he continues his disruptive behavior, he nevertheless insists on conducting himself in a manner so disorderly, disruptive, and disrespectful of the court that his trial cannot be carried on with him in the courtroom.”
245 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One of the most basic of the rights guaranteed by the Confrontation Clause is the accused's right to be present in the courtroom at every stage of his trial.”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that respect for the individual which is the lifeblood of the law.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.