198 Ill. App. 3d 438 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2021
11 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 Booth v. Maryland · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Johnson v. United States · 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the victim was defenseless and the defendant could have achieved his goal of robbing the victim and the victim’s girlfriend without killing the victim, every single murder is by nature unnecessary; section 5 — 5—3.2(b)(2), however, requires that the murder be ‘exceptionally’ brutal or heinous. All murders are brutal and heinous to a certain degree. Moreover, many murdered robbery victims are defenseless when killed. Section 5 — 8—2, however, allowing for extended-term sentences, ‘was not intended to convert every offense into an extraordinary offense subject to an extended-term sentence.' ” Andrews, 132 Ill. 2d at 465-66 , 548 N.E.2d at 1032 , quoting People v. Evans (1981), 87 Ill. 2d 77, 88-89 .”
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.