126 Ill. App. 3d 5 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

cited by 15 later decisions

states following

September 2018

most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2018

15 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 67 Ill. 2d 544 - In Re Stephenson · 18 Ill. App. 3d 315 - People v. Sansone · Ajax Buff Co. v. Industrial Commission · 108 Ill. App. 3d 169 - People v. Nunn · 72 Ill. App. 3d 949 - People v. Blumenshine

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

“[e]xpert testimony that defendant may have difficulty adjusting to the stresses of noninstitutional life is not sufficient to sustain a finding requiring involuntary commitment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Bryson · 295 Ill. App. 3d 750 - People v. Grant
“a defendant who has been found not guilty by reason of insanity who is not subject to involuntary admission but who is reasonably expected to inflict serious physical harm upon himself [or herself] or another and who would benefit from inpatient care or is in need of inpatient care.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Bryson · 126 Ill. App. 3d 746 - People v. Sanchez
“'the finding must be based upon an explicit medical opinion regarding the [defendant's] future conduct, and can not be based upon a mere finding of mental illness.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People v. Bryson

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.