101 Ill. 2d 73 - People v. M.D.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen (1991), 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho (2003)
63 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 76 Ill. 2d 289 - People v. Taylor · 97 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Alejos · 72 Ill. 2d 124 - People v. Underwood · Peek v. United States · 76 Wis. 2d 286 - In INTEREST OF DH v. State
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Station adjustments' involve situations where the police, after taking the juvenile to the police station, decide that the juvenile will not be prosecuted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where no reasonable man would take the view adopted by the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]ection 2-7(3)(a) of the Juvenile Court Act [citation] lists six factors which the trial court must consider in reaching its decision on whether to prosecute a particular minor as an adult under the criminal laws.”
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.