52 Ill. 2d 455 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably 114 Ill. 2d 170 - People v. Johnson (1986), 73 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Lutz (1978)
64 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 United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · Kirby v. Illinois
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * in an indictment for attempt, the crime intended need not set out as fully and specifically as would be required in an indictment for the actual commission of the crime. [Citations.]””
5 later decisions 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.