51 Ill. 2d 39 - People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably 55 Ill. 2d 18 - People v. Witherspoon (1973), 111 Ill. 2d 18 - People v. Wright (1986)
42 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 · 5 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Hryciuk · 40 Ill. 2d 233 - The PEOPLE v. Gonzales · 38 Ill. 2d 321 - The PEOPLE v. Thomas · 15 Ill. 2d 498 - The People v. Alden
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In proving a violation of his constitutional rights the defendant must establish that he suffered a substantial prejudice from the manner in which his counsel conducted his defense. [Citations.] A claim of prejudice cannot be based on mere conjecture.””
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.