137 Ill. App. 3d 1078 - People v. Norks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably 166 Ill. 2d 310 - People v. Newberry (1995), 151 Ill. App. 3d 402 - People v. Winters (1986)
32 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Agurs · Harris v. McRae · United States v. Twigg
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it is not the trial court's reasoning which is the subject of this court's review, but, rather, its judgment,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A person is not guilty of an offense if his conduct is incited or induced by a public officer or employee, or agent of either, for the purpose of obtaining evidence for the prosecution of such person. However, this Section is inapplicable if a public officer or employee, or agent of either, merely affords to such person the opportunity or facility for committing an offense in furtherance of a criminal purpose which such person has originated.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 7 — 12.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense, or might have affected the outcome of the trial, does not establish `materiality' in the constitutional sense.”
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.