People v. Spera’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. United States · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim · 133 Ill. App. 2d 885 - People v. Hayes · 27 Ill. 2d 518 - The PEOPLE v. Squires · 9 Ill. App. 3d 706 - People v. Iverson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall be held to answer for a crime punishable by death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary unless either the initial charge has been brought by indictment of a grand jury or the person has been given a prompt preliminary hearing to establish probable cause.””
1 later decision 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.