201 Ill. App. 3d 116 - People v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 219 Ill. App. 3d 76 - People v. Mason (1991), 325 Ill. App. 3d 624 - People v. Anderson (2001)
49 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight · 123 Ill. 2d 184 - People v. Reddick · Rogers v. First National Bank of Peoria
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While an adult caring for and bathing a small child might unintentionally and unknowingly place a finger in such a position as to create the slight penetration into the vagina or anus of a child described in section 12 — 12(f) [citation] of the Code, the definition of aggravated criminal sexual assault would surely be given a commonsense interpretation to make such conduct innocent. Absent that type of situation, the Terrell opinion makes clear that the mental state required for aggravated criminal sexual assault based on such penetration would naturally flow from the commission of the prohibited acts. We conclude Terrell does not require us to change our ruling in regard to the inclusion in instructions of the general criminal mental states implied by section 4 — 3 of the Code.” (Burton, 201 Ill. App. 3d at 121-22 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[S]ome mental states involved in offenses, although not specifically mentioned in the statute defining the offense, may be implied in the offense and be specific enough to require instruction to the jury. Under some circumstances, the mental state implied by section 4 — 3 of the Code may possibly be so specific as to require instruction.” (Burton, 201 Ill. App. 3d at 122 , 558 N.E.2d at 1374 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As long as the crime occurred within the statute of limitations and prior to the return of the charging instrument, the State need only provide the defendant with the best information it has as to when the offenses occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Albarran
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.