People v. Lewis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Although a defendant may have a right, even of constitutional dimensions, to follow whichever course he chooses, the Constitution does not by that token always forbid requiring him to choose.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. King
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-05-20· cited 1,292×
• People v. Wright
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-02-21· cited 120×
• People v. Bowman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-09-26· cited 86×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-12-28· cited 65×
• People v. Boyd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-09-11· cited 40×
• People v. Velez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-03-30· cited 26×
• People v. Crisp
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-28· cited 24×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-02-05· cited 23×
• People v. Spann
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-06-15· cited 21×
• People v. Solheim
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-10-27· cited 20×
• People v. Ramsey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-07-10· cited 18×
• People v. Terry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-05-06· cited 16×
• People v. Poliquin
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-06-01· cited 16×
• People v. Edmondson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-05-12· cited 14×
• People v. Arch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-11-10· cited 14×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Willie Buckhana and Tony McGhee v. Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-03-26· cited 13×
• People v. Lott
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-11-28· cited 13×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-03-07· cited 13×
• People v. Elliott
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-03-31· cited 12×
• People v. Dunklin
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-03-05· cited 11×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McGautha v. California
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-03· cited 1,077×
• The PEOPLE v. Johnson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-03-24· cited 57×
• The PEOPLE v. Gonzales
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-05-29· cited 49×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-11-27· cited 42×
• People v. Thomas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-01-14· cited 29×
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-01-16· cited 6×