21 Ill. App. 3d 289 - People v. Kadlec’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 1992 · most notably 20 Ill. App. 3d 1024 - People v. Carpentier (1974), 78 Ill. App. 3d 858 - People v. Howard (1979)
42 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 50 Ill. 2d 196 - People v. Amerman · 42 Ill. 2d 301 - The PEOPLE v. Harden · 44 Ill. 2d 550 - The People v. Hicks · 66 Ill. App. 2d 204 - People v. Kelly · 17 Ill. App. 3d 934 - People v. Cooper
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The crime with which we are here concerned is that of ‘[Ujnlawful delivery of a controlled substance.’ The crime is committed by the delivery of a controlled substance regardless of the amount thereof. The particular amount of the controlled substance relates only to the extent of the penalty which may properly be imposed.” (People v. Kadlec (1974), 21 Ill. App. 3d 289, 296 , 313 N.E.2d 522, 527-28 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Except as authorized by this Act, it is unlawful for any person knowingly to manufacture or deliver, or possess with intent to manufacture or deliver, a controlled substance. Any person who violates this Section with respect to: (a) the following controlled substances and amounts “ *is guilty of a Class 1 felony * * *. (b) any other amount of a controlled substance classified in Schedules I or II which is a narcotic drug is guilty of a Class 2 felony * * *. (c) any other amount of a controlled substance classified in Schedule I or II which is not a narcotic drug is guilty of a Class 3 felony ° ° (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 56M, par. 1401.) (Emphasis added.)”
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.