163 Ill. 2d 357 - Barger v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 233 Ill. 2d 185 - People Ex Rel. Birkett v. Konetski (2009), 213 Ill. 2d 178 - People v. Cornelius (2004)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Beazell v. State of Ohio Chatfield
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he drafters of our modern constitution intended the Illinois ex post facto clause to do no more than conform to the Federal Constitution's general prohibition on the States. [Citation.] Thus, in construing this State's constitutional provision, we are without a basis to depart from the Supreme Court's construction of the Federal ex post facto clause. [Citation.] And, in fact, this court has long interpreted our own constitutional provision in step with Supreme Court pronouncements.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny statute which punishes as a crime an act previously committed, * * * which makes more burdensome the punishment for a crime, after its commission, * * * is prohibited as ex post facto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a law does not make more burdensome the punishment for a crime after its commission, 'it is of no moment that the law may work to a prisoner's disadvantage.'”
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.