2 Ill. App. 3d 939 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 33 Ill. 2d 417 - The People v. Taylor · 41 Ill. 2d 297 - The People v. Adkins · The People v. Popescue · 73 Ill. App. 2d 168 - People v. Nordstrom · 125 Ill. App. 2d 465 - People v. Hanserd
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A sentencing court is not confined to evidence showing guilt or bound by rules of evidence at trial but may look to facts of crime and search anywhere within reasonable bounds for other facts which tend to aggravate or mitigate offense, inquiring into general moral character of defendant, his mentality, his habits, his social environments, his abnormal or subnormal tendencies, his age, his natural inclination of aversion to commit crime, his motivations, and his life, family, occupation and record. People v. Adkins, 41 Ill.2d 297 , 242 N.E.2d 258 .””
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.