150 Ill. App. 3d 38 - People v. DeVoss’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2008
10 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 124 Ill. App. 3d 990 - People v. Graven · 46 Ill. App. 3d 725 - People v. Hutchison · 65 Ill. App. 3d 981 - People v. Nunn · 97 Ill. App. 3d 847 - Gilbert v. Municipal Officers' Electoral Board
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[N]o driver may transport, carry, possess or have any alcoholic liquor within the passenger area of any motor vehicle upon a highway in this State except in the original container and with the seal unbroken.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 951/2, par. 11 — 502(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“drag[ ] in both the ‘hot rodder’ whose buddies had open beers in the car and the unsuspecting, kind old gentleman who drove home from church with the little old lady with the open flask of communion wine in her handbag.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Loge
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.