54 Ill. 2d 21 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 194 Ill. 2d 361 - People v. Enis (2000), 161 Ill. 2d 148 - People v. Thompkins (1994)
57 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 83 Ill. App. 2d 411 - People v. Brown
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`By hypothesis, in every case in which the issue is raised, the lawyer's advice [not to testify] will in retrospect appear to the defendant to have been bad advice, and he will stand to gain if he can succeed in establishing that he did not testify because his lawyer refused to permit him to do so.'" Knox, 58 Ill.App.3d at 767-68 , 16 Ill.Dec. 182 , 374 N.E.2d 957 (quoting Brown, 54 Ill.2d at 24 , 294 N.E.2d 285 ).”
7 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.