91 Ill. 2d 346 - People v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 312 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Caballero (1984), 217 Ill. 2d 407 - People v. Patterson (2005)
8 federal appellate · 312 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · Greene v. Massey · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · 56 Ill. 2d 493 - People v. Lilly
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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the purpose and effect of the prosecutor's statements were intended to direct the attention of the jury to the defendant's failure to testify.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Powers of the Reviewing Court. On appeal the reviewing court may: * * * (2) set aside, affirm, or modify any or all of the proceedings subsequent to or dependent upon the judgment or order from which the appeal is taken." 134 Ill.2d R. 615(b)(2).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he situation before us is an anomalous one in that the trial judge's failure to impose sentence on defendant's convictions for mob violence and disorderly conduct stemmed from his belief that they merged into the other offenses upon which he did not impose sentence.”
3 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.