13 Ill. App. 3d 642 - People v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 22 Ill. 2d 175 - The People v. Poland · 13 Ill. 2d 290 - The People v. Coulson · 39 Ill. 2d 265 - The People v. McKee · 41 Ill. 2d 390 - The PEOPLE v. Armstrong (Sumlin) · 39 Ill. 2d 40 - The PEOPLE v. Long
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the court determines that the State has exercised without success due diligence to obtain evidence material to the case and that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such evidence may be obtained at a later date the court may continue the cause on application of the State for not more than an additional 60' days.””
2 later decisions 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.