52 Ill. App. 3d 470 - People v. Shipp’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 127 Ill. App. 3d 642 - People v. Estes (1984), 134 Ill. App. 3d 262 - People v. White (1985)
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 43 Ill. 2d 375 - The PEOPLE v. Nuccio · 43 Ill. 2d 74 - The PEOPLE v. Lewellen · 45 Ill. App. 3d 643 - People v. Limas · 52 Ill. 2d 130 - People v. Stombaugh · 27 Ill. App. 3d 128 - People v. Bailey
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.
“the evidence will not support a finding, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant continued to fire at the decedent after she reasonably should have realized that he was disabled.”
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.