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.

• noting that because the defendant did not elect to represent himself until well into the sentencing proceedings, he “obviously knew the nature of the charge[s] for which he had been convicted”
• strategic decisions regarding witnesses are attributed to counsel not defendant, for purposes of an ineffectiveness claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Redd
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-05-23· cited 106×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-09-23· cited 42×
• State v. Rosales
  Nebraska Court of Appeals· 1994-08-30· cited 29×
• People v. Khan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-06-30· cited 17×
• People v. Brant
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-09-22· cited 14×
• People v. Brzowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-06-18· cited 13×
• People v. Thomas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-12-06· cited 6×
• People v. Ware
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-02-10

Cites

23 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×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• People v. Albanese
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-10-19· cited 1,967×
• Herring v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 1,330×
• People v. Hattery
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-11-21· cited 248×
• People v. Johnson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-04-20· cited 223×
• People v. Emerson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-12-30· cited 165×
• People v. Coleman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-06-19· cited 107×
• People v. Gibson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 67×
• People v. Baker
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-09-17· cited 67×
• People v. Langley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-02-28· cited 57×
• People v. Pondexter
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-06-05· cited 53×
• The PEOPLE v. Diaz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-09-28· cited 46×
• People v. Lindsey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-01-16· cited 37×
• People v. Taggart
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-09-03· cited 34×
• People v. McClendon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-05-09· cited 20×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-05-31· cited 19×
• People v. Keys
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-03-08· cited 18×
• People v. Moman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-06-29· cited 18×
• People v. Coss
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-02-02· cited 13×