21 Ill. App. 3d 301 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People v. Morreale · United States ex rel. Culbreath v. Rundle · 38 Ill. 2d 39 - The People v. Walston · 19 Ill. 2d 616 - The People v. Baldridge · 45 Ill. 2d 300 - The PEOPLE v. McKirdie
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if the only promise made by the State’s Attorney was to recommend a sentence and the defendant was never told that the promise was not binding on the court, it cannot be said that the defendant’s guilty plea was truly knowing and voluntary.””
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.