55 Ill. 2d 337 - People v. Killebrew’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably 56 Ill. 2d 493 - People v. Lilly (1974), 84 Ill. 2d 350 - People v. Jackson (1981)
82 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 Mapp v. Ohio · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 9 Ill. 2d 92 - The People v. Trefonas · 11 Ill. 2d 360 - The People v. Burson · 49 Ill. 2d 416 - The PEOPLE v. Canaday
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘Objections to evidence may be waived by failure to interpose proper objections in apt time, even though based upon constitutional grounds.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““At the time the defendant was prosecuted and sentenced armed robbery was an offense punishable by ‘any indeterminate term with a minimum of not less than 2 years.’ Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 38, par. 18—2(b). Thus, the defendant does not fall within the sentencing provisions of the Code. Its sentencing provisions provide for a greater minimum sentence than was provided for in the prior law under which this defendant was prosecuted and sentenced.””
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.