4 Ill. App. 3d 893 - People v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 1992
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 32 Ill. 2d 291 - The PEOPLE v. Hamby · 40 Ill. 2d 562 - The PEOPLE v. Smith · Deere v. Lewis · 46 Ill. 2d 79 - The PEOPLE v. Wales · Home Flax Co. v. Beebe
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The failure to amend the pro se petition was not enough to establish inadequacy of representation in the absence of a showing that the petition could have been successfully amended. (People v. Smith, (1968 ) 40 Ill.2d 562 .) A review of the record discloses that the appellant received adequate representation by his appointed counsel. (People v. Wilcoxen, (1970) 45 Ill.2d 365 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Jackson
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.