46 Ill. 2d 153 - The PEOPLE v. Stepheny’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably 147 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Williams (1991), 105 Ill. 2d 79 - People v. Gaines (1984)
3 federal appellate · 107 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 3 Ill. 2d 437 - People v. Morris · 34 Ill. 2d 402 - The PEOPLE v. Ashley · People v. Jennings · 39 Ill. 2d 68 - The People v. Sigafus · 35 Ill. 2d 624 - The PEOPLE v. Johnson
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The more troublesome allegations are those relating to the inadequacy of the representation by defendant’s trial counsel which do not rest entirely upon the trial record and are not barred by the res judicata principle.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Jones“actual incompetency of counsel, as reflected by the manner of carrying out his duties as a trial attorney,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial prejudice resulting therefrom without which the outcome would probably have been different.”
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.