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← 122 Ill. App. 3d 13 - People v. Hoffer

122 Ill. App. 3d 13 - People v. Hoffer’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Green v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Illinois v. Vitale · Gerry v. United States · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc.

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““A person acts recklessly when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that circumstances exist or that a result will follow and such disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation.””
    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.