177 Ill. 2d 495 - People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

cited by 85 later decisions

states following

September 2022

most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 80 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005), 202 Ill. 2d 328 - People v. Miller (2002)

4 federal appellate · 80 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 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe · 105 Ill. 2d 310 - People v. Steppan · 79 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Bradley · 163 Ill. 2d 250 - People v. Hickman · 167 Ill. 2d 210 - People v. Bailey

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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"First, the proportionate penalties clause is violated where the punishment for a particular offense is cruel, degrading, or so wholly disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community. [Citations.] Second, the proportionate penalties clause is violated where similar offenses are compared and conduct that creates a less serious threat to the public health and safety is punished more harshly. [Citations.] Third, the proportionate penalties clause is violated where identical offenses are given different sentences. [Citations.]" People v. Davis, 177 Ill.2d 495, 503-04 , 227 Ill.Dec. 101 , 687 N.E.2d 24 (1977).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. People v. Sole · People v. Austin
“[a]ll penalties shall be determined * * * according to the seriousness of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 345 Ill. App. 3d 916 - People v. Pulley · 187 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Fuller
“`a penalty violates the proportionate penalties clause if it is cruel, degrading or so wholly disproportionate to the offense committed as to shock the moral sense of the community.' [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. 329 Ill. App. 3d 639 - People v. Marsh · 187 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Fuller

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.