175 Ill. App. 3d 700 - People v. Lighthall’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 195 Ill. App. 3d 520 - People v. Washington (1990), 206 Ill. App. 3d 748 - People v. Schorle (1990)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 65 Ill. App. 3d 831 - People v. Ballard · 113 Ill. App. 3d 727 - People v. Rolston · 103 Ill. App. 3d 451 - People v. Jensen
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits theft when he knowingly: (2) Obtains by deception control over property of the owner; [and] * * * (A) Intends to deprive the owner permanently of the use or benefit of the property.” In order to convict a defendant of theft by deception, the State must prove”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.