72 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
439 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 444 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson (1980), 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland (1979)
439 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 · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Dusky v. United States
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 444 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘In such a case the court will not reverse a conviction because of the incompetency of counsel unless the representation is of such a low caliber as to amount to no representation at all or reduces the court proceedings to a farce or sham.’ People v. Torres (1973), 54 Ill. 2d 384, 391 . See also, e.g., People v. Redmond (1972), 50 Ill. 2d 313, 315 ; People v. Washington (1968), 41 Ill. 2d 16, 22 .””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) For the purposes of this Section a defendant is unfit to stand trial or be sentenced if, because of a mental or physical condition, he is unable: (1) to understand the nature and purpose of the proceedings against him; or (2) to assist in his defense. # # # (c) When a bona fide doubt of the defendant’s fitness to stand trial or be sentenced is raised, the court shall order that a determination of that question be made before further proceedings.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 1005 — 2—1.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he determination of whether there is a bona fide doubt of fitness for trial depends on the facts of each case.”
2 later decisions 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.