People v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• failure to attach affidavits is not necessarily fatal to postconviction petition where allegations stand uncontradicted and are supported by the record
• “A lawyer shall keep a client reasonably informed about the status of a matter and promptly comply with reasonable -10- requests for information.” (Internal quotation marks omitted.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Krueger
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-05-10· cited 216×
• People v. Houston
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2007-08-02· cited 158×
• Lieberman v. Thomas
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-10· cited 107×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-03-05· cited 75×
• People v. Davison
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-11-06· cited 38×
• People v. Burns
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-03-25· cited 32×
• People v. Hernandez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-09-05· cited 30×
• People v. Valladeres
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-07-24· cited 24×
• People v. Hobson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-11-14· cited 23×
• People v. Little
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-05-05· cited 23×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-08-24· cited 22×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-09-10· cited 20×
• People v. James
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-12-07· cited 16×
• In re Commitment of Walker
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-11-12· cited 14×
• People v. Ramirez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-07-17· cited 14×
• Hutcherson v. Ward
  Indiana Tax Court· 2013-12-27· cited 11×
• People v. Bass
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-09-02· cited 9×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-10-27· cited 8×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-05-15· cited 8×
• People v. Marquez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-08-27· cited 7×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• People v. Caballero
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-01-18· cited 310×
• People v. Owens
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-05-17· cited 143×
• Melvin H. Sullivan v. James A. Fairman
  Seventh Circuit· 1987-05-22· cited 139×
• Carl William Montgomery v. Dale Petersen
  Seventh Circuit· 1988-05-04· cited 101×
• United States of America, Ex Rel. Ellis O. Partee v. Michael P. Lane and James H. Thieret
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-09-06· cited 76×
• The PEOPLE v. Thomas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-11-30· cited 58×
• People v. Mehlberg
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-08-03· cited 58×
• The PEOPLE v. French
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-09-22· cited 55×
• People v. Miles
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-08-06· cited 46×
• People v. Mendez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-11-05· cited 43×
• People v. Enoch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-12-19· cited 40×
• The PEOPLE v. Collins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-03-28· cited 37×
• People v. Dean
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-03-06· cited 30×
• Anderson v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-22· cited 25×
• People v. Treadway
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-06-22· cited 25×
• People v. Nix
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-11-25· cited 21×
• People v. Shiro
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-09-20· cited 18×
• People v. McGinnis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-08-03· cited 18×
• People v. Redmond
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-07-11· cited 16×