State v. Wills’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Dean (Slip Opinion) (2015), 386 Ill. App. 3d 598 - People v. Walston (2008)
108 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.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a series of continuous acts bound together by time, space and purpose, and directed toward a single objective.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court shall not impose more than one prison term on an offender under division (D)(1)(a) of this section [governing sentencing on firearm specifications] for felonies committed as part of the same act or transaction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“should serve no less time because of the coincidental proximity of his two victims”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.