State v. Legg’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 213 Ill. 2d 523 - In Re Commitment of Simons (2004), State v. Heath (2004)
29 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 State v. Finley · State v. Lenihan · State v. Lane · State v. Guillaume · State v. Daniels
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acted arbitrarily in imposing sentence because it failed to consider the mitigating factors referenced in [a psychological evaluation of Legg], or make a finding of aggravating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garrymore“The State responds, and we agree, that this is an issue concerning the equity of Legg's sentence, which properly lies with the Sentence Review Division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zimmerman
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.