13 Ill. 2d 21 - The People v. Outten’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 138 Ill. App. 3d 481 - People v. Kimbrough (1985), 21 Ill. 2d 320 - The People v. Strong (1961)
6 federal appellate · 55 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 Sorrells v. United States · United States v. Sherman · Farris v. People · People v. Schwartz · 9 Cal. App. 2d 99 - People v. Lee
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[OJfficers may afford opportunities or facilities for the commission of crime, and may use artifice to catch those engaged in criminal ventures, but entrapment constitutes a valid defense if the officers inspire, incite, persuade or lure the defendant to commit a crime which he otherwise had no intention of perpetrating. [Citation.] The law frowns upon the seduction of an otherwise innocent person into a criminal career but tolerates the use of decoys and various other artifices to catch the criminal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the defense [of entrapment] is invoked, the predisposition and criminal design of the defendant becomes relevant, and the People may then introduce such evidence relating thereto as bears upon the issue of entrapment.””
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.