189 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Conlan’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2022
17 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · 183 Ill. 2d 434 - Russell v. Department of Natural Resources · 127 Ill. 2d 379 - People v. Jihan
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to satisfy constitutional principles of due process, a statute must give a person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly, and provide explicit standards for those police officers, judges and juries who apply it in order to prevent arbitrary and discriminating enforcement. [Citations.] Where, as here, no first amendment concern is implicated, there is no right to challenge the statute as being vague on its face if it clearly applies to defendants’ conduct. [Citation.] Thus, the issue is whether [the statute] is unconstitutionally vague as applied to the conduct for which these defendants were prosecuted.” (Emphasis in original.) People v. Conlan, 189 Ill. 2d 286, 292 , 725 N.E.2d 1237, 1240 (2000).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'lightly or cavalierly declare unconstitutional that which the representatives of the people have seen fit to enact'”
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.