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defendant forfeits any claim in Illinois

5 Illinois opinions name it 1 courts 2000–2025 2 in the last five years

The cases below were cited by Illinois courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.

Followed or applied (0)

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No positive-treatment citations attached to this issue in Illinois.

Distinguished, questioned or overruled (0)

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No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Illinois. Read the followed side critically anyway.

Also cited on this issue (6)

CaseCitedYears
People v. Kinney green
illappct · 1998
2 sentences

2000People v. Kinney , 294 Ill.

2000People v. Kinney, 294 Ill.

22000–2000
People v. Taliani green
ill · 2021
1 sentence

2025Taliani, 2021 IL 125891, ¶ 53 ; 725 ILCS 5/122-3 (West 2022). ¶ 14 Section 122-1(f) of the Act states that: “(f) Only one petition may be filed by a petitioner under this Article without leave of the court.

12025–2025
People v. Simms green
ill · 2018
1 sentence

2024The filing of a successive postconviction petition is “highly disfavored” (People v. Simms, 2018 IL 122378, ¶ 38 ) and allowed only in “very limited circumstances” (People v. Davis, 2014 IL 115595, ¶ 14 ).

12024–2024
People v. Allen green
illappct · 2019
1 sentence

2024The Act anticipates the filing of only one postconviction petition, and a defendant forfeits any claim not presented in the initial petition. 725 ILCS 5/122-1(f) (West 2016); People v. Allen, 2019 IL App (1st) 162985 , ¶ 29.

12024–2024
People v. Davis green
ill · 2014
1 sentence

2024The filing of a successive postconviction petition is “highly disfavored” (People v. Simms, 2018 IL 122378, ¶ 38 ) and allowed only in “very limited circumstances” (People v. Davis, 2014 IL 115595, ¶ 14 ).

12024–2024
People v. Sanders green
ill · 2016
2 sentences

2020Our supreme court has “identified two bases upon which the bar against successive petitions will be relaxed.” People v. Sanders, 2016 IL 118123 , ¶ 24, 47 N.E.3d 237 .

2020Our supreme court has “identified two bases upon which the bar against successive petitions will be relaxed.” People v. Sanders, 2016 IL 118123 , ¶ 24, 47 N.E.3d 237 .

12020–2020

Statutes the citing opinions construe

IL § 720 ILCS 5/9-1 (3) IL § 725 ILCS 5/122-1 (3) IL § 725 ILCS 5/122-3 (3)

Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.

Where else courts name it

CA 8 (2015–2024) IL 5 (2000–2025) OH 4 (2011–2020) NY 4 (1989–2022)

Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.

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