2012 IL App (4th) 100708 - People v. Brunner’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 183 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Coleman · 113 Ill. 2d 516 - People v. Ward · 388 Ill. App. 3d 936 - People v. Dowding · 174 Ill. 2d 133 - People v. Shatner · 175 Ill. 2d 372 - People v. Tenner
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.
“"[Defendant's] premise is that since drugs are partly to blame for his actions, the defendant is somehow less culpable and should not suffer the ultimate penalty for his criminal behavior. Simply stated, the sentencing judge was under no legal obligation to subscribe to this suggestion. To the contrary, the sentencing judge was free to conclude, under the circumstances, that defendant's drug history simply had no mitigating value but was, in fact, aggravating." People v. Shatner , 174 Ill. 2d 133 , 160, 220 Ill.Dec. 346 , 673 N.E.2d 258 , 270 (1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Sturgeon
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.