56 Ill. 2d 560 - People v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 60 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Williams (1975), 128 Ill. 2d 66 - People v. Flores (1989)
193 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Grunewald v. United States · Bruno v. United States · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · 9 Ill. 2d 92 - The People v. Trefonas
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a trial court refuses to exercise discretion in the erroneous belief that it has no discretion as to the question presented.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“You must decide on the basis of the testimony heard in the courtroom. I cannot have any testimony of any witnesses read to you * * *.”
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.