State v. Formella’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2013
most recently cited
1 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Adams · 26 Ill. 2d 308 - The PEOPLE v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Spriggs · State v. Sideris · State v. Donohue
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to the fair import of [its] terms and to promote justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McKeown“ascribe the plain and ordinary meaning to the words used,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.