74 Ill. 2d 398 - People v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 217 Ill. 2d 177 - People v. Whitfield (2005), 236 Ill. 2d 345 - People v. Morris (2010)
66 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 Brady v. United States · 58 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Krantz · United States of America Ex Rel. Theodore Baker v. Frederick Finkbeiner, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center · 50 Ill. 2d 28 - People v. Reeves · United States of America Ex Rel. Arthur Decar Ferris v. Fred L. Finkbeiner and State of Illinois
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While there appears to be no reason for failure to comply strictly with the explicitly stated requirements of Rule 402, every deviation therefrom does not require reversal. That the plea was ‘intelligent and voluntary’ may be shown by substantial, and does not require literal, compliance with the provisions of Rule 402. People v. Krantz (1974), 58 Ill. 2d 187 .” ( 74 Ill. 2d 398, 402 , 385 N.E.2d 696, 698 .)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘[T]he quid pro quo for the plea of guilty was the [prosecutor’s] recommendation that there be concurrent sentences of 1 to 3 years[,] [and] defendant knew that the court was not bound to accept the recommendation and could sentence defendant to a term of not less than 1 nor more than 20 years.’ ” (Emphasis in original.) Whitfield, 217 Ill. 2d at 191 , 840 N.E.2d at 667 , quoting McCoy, 74 Ill. 2d at 403 , 385 N.E.2d at 699 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The * * * sentence imposed, together with the mandatory parole period, are [ sic ] substantially less than the maximum * * * to which defendant knew he could be sentenced. Under these circumstances we hold that the record fails to show that defendant was denied a substantial constitutional right under either the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of Illinois.”
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.