74 Ill. 2d 444 - People v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron (2005), 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young (1989)
102 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 · Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · Harrington v. California · Screws 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Even those guilty of the most heinous offenses are entitled to a fair trial. Whatever the degree of guilt, those charged with a federal crime are entitled to be tried by the standards of guilt which [the legislature] has prescribed.’ ” (Emphasis in original.) People v. Green, 74 Ill. 2d at 455 (Ryan, J., specially concurring), quoting Screws v. United States, 325 U.S. 91, 107 , 89 L. Ed. 1495, 1506 , 65 S. Ct. 1031, 1038 (1945).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“goes beyond the evidentiary test of Hale and establishes a per se constitutional bar to the use of silence.”
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.