103 Ill. 2d 339 - People v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 54 - Fumarolo v. Chicago Board of Education (1990), 122 Ill. 2d 64 - People v. Porter (1988)
140 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 102 Ill. 2d 201 - People v. Taylor · 82 Ill. 2d 556 - People v. Youngbey · 71 Ill. 2d 13 - Andrews v. Foxworthy · 73 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Lutz · 94 Ill. 2d 138 - People v. Boykin
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An offender serving a sentence for a misdemeanor who is convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment shall be transferred to the Department of Corrections, and the misdemeanor sentence shall be merged in and run concurrently with the felony sentence.” (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38, par. 1005 — 8—4(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Winslow“statutes should be construed so that language is not rendered meaningless or superfluous”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“without resort to supplementary principles of statutory construction.”
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.