128 Ill. 2d 210 - People v. Shukovsky’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 194 Ill. 2d 361 - People v. Enis (2000), 173 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Warren (1996)
51 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 United States v. Nixon · Washington v. Texas · Young v. United States Ex Rel. Vuitton Et Fils S. A. · 87 Ill. 2d 167 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Silverstein · 37 Ill. 2d 180 - People Ex Rel. General Motors Corp. v. Bua
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contempt proceedings are `original special proceeding[s], collateral to and independent of the case in which the contempt arises.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There are civil and criminal proceedings. They have been simply defined by this court: “Proceedings in the nature of criminal contempt have been defined as those directed to preservation of the dignity and authority of the court, while * * * civil contempts are those prosecuted to enforce the rights of private parties and to compel obedience to orders or decrees for the benefit of opposing parties. [Citations].” People ex rel. Chicago Bar Association v. Barasch (1961), 21 Ill.2d 407 , 409, 173 N.E.2d 417 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Benalcazar“where the matter appealed from is independent of, and collateral to, the case before the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Mingo
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.