67 Ill. 2d 423 - People v. Beyah’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 185 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Kliner (1998), 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner (1989)
54 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 36 Ill. 2d 524 - The People v. Fosdick · 23 Ill. 2d 313 - The People v. Bryarly · 61 Ill. 2d 298 - People v. Gooding · 24 Ill. 2d 151 - The People v. Wyatt · 33 Ill. 2d 357 - The People v. Jones
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'THE COURT: I will give you an early date. MR. GOLDBERG [Assistant State’s Attorney]: —served time in the House of Correction— THE COURT: Motion for bond reduction denied. Go ahead, pick a date. MR. GOLDBERG: I have got others. THE COURT: I haven’t got time. Pick a date. We’ll give him a trial. I can’t talk about bond. If you’re innocent, you walk out. If you’re guilty, you go to jail. MR. WALTERS [Public Defender]: Set it down for three weeks from today. THE COURT: How about October 18? THE DEFENDANT: Can I get one earlier than that? THE COURT: I can’t give you one earlier than that. Motion Defendant, with subpoenas, October 18.’ ” Beyah, 67 Ill. 2d at 426 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pick a date.” The supreme court emphasized that this was not a case where only defense counsel was engaged in another trial and therefore could not proceed. Finally, it was the court,”
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.