State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 94 Ill. 2d 378 - People v. Free (1983), State v. Duke (1994)
26 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. Henson · State v. Wilson · State v. Harden · State v. Boyd · State v. McClain
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Now, if the State was so disturbed by a psychiatric report being submitted as far as the defendant was concerned, let’s just cut through another one of his smoke screens that’s been presented here. Why didn’t they get a psychiatrist to examine the defendant themselves?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Duke
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.