123 Ill. 2d 487 - People v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner (1989), 143 Ill. 2d 154 - People v. Simms (1991)
58 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Butler · Lee v. Illinois · 94 Ill. 2d 378 - People v. Free · 97 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Williams
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mitigating factors include: first any or all of the following if supported by the evidence; the defendant has no significant history of prior criminal activity; the murder was committed while the defendant was under the influence of an extreme mental or emotional disturbance, although not sufficient to constitute a defense to the prosecution; second, any other reason supported by the evidence why the defendant should not be sentenced to death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person who is in an intoxicated or drugged condition is criminally responsible for conduct unless such condition is involuntarily produced and deprives him of substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Essentially, the prosecutor was apparently concerned that the jury might not believe [the male accomplice] if they could see him testify.”
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.