72 Ill. 2d 16 - People v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
248 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 75 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Roberts (1979), 88 Ill. 2d 129 - People v. Lewis (1981)
248 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 62 Ill. 2d 568 - People v. Viser · 68 Ill. 2d 198 - People v. Trinkle · 29 Ill. 2d 116 - The People v. Kolep · 30 Ill. 2d 51 - The People v. Nastasio · 67 Ill. 2d 86 - People v. Muir
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* e ° who kills an individual if, in performing the acts which cause the death, he intends to kill or do great bodily harm to that individual; or he knows that such acts will cause death to that individual; or he knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits murder if, in performing the acts which cause the death: (1) He either intends to kill or do great bodily harm to that individual or another, or knows that such acts will cause death to that individual or another; or • (2) He knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual or another; or (3) He is attempting or committing a forcible felony other than voluntary manslaughter.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““The instructions in the instant case twice stated the requirement of intent to kill as an element of attempt murder. (IPI Criminal Nos. 6.05 and 6.07.) But the instruction which defined murder did not limit the mental state to intent to kill; it also defined the mental state required as, alternatively, intent to do great bodily harm, knowledge that the acts will cause death, or knowledge that the acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm. (IPI Criminal No. 7.01.) Judged by the standard established in Harris, this was erroneous.””
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.