228 Ill. App. 3d 664 - People v. Read’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2010
10 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 143 Ill. 2d 225 - People v. Splett · 201 Ill. App. 3d 10 - People v. Valentine · 151 Ill. App. 3d 911 - People v. Williams · 153 Ill. App. 3d 939 - People v. Shaw · 145 Ill. App. 3d 1002 - People v. Smith
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.
““In this case the actual physical release of Read from the facility was not necessary in order to comply with the statutory definition of a ‘discharge.’ The ‘Notice of Change in Status’ indicates that Read was in fact discharged and released, albeit to himself, on August 30, 1990, the same day the court ordered it. There is nothing in the record to indicate the exact time of day that the petition in cause No. 90 — MH—224 was filed. Furthermore, there is nothing in the record showing that Read tried to leave the facility or that he wanted to leave or that he was prevented from leaving. Under the circumstances herein!,] we do not find that the failure to physically release Read from Choate Center precluded the State from subsequently filing an involuntary commitment petition. Based on the facts of this case, requiring Read to physically leave Choate Center before filing the second petition would require that we construe the statute as requiring the performance of an empty formality when the legislative intent has been otherwise achieved.” Read, 228 Ill. App. 3d at 667 , 592 N.E.2d at 1180 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he mere failure to discharge, whether or not occasioned by the mental health facility's own omission in failing to follow through on a court order, does not necessarily insulate the respondent from subsequent, otherwise-valid involuntary proceedings. In sum, [a] respondent may be possessed of other legal avenues for redress of a wrong, but [an appeal of a subsequent, otherwise-valid involuntary proceeding] is presently not the appropriate forum to decide such matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Andrew B.“if the failure to release a respondent pursuant to a statutorily mandated release provision deprives the trial court of jurisdiction [citation], surely the failure to release [him] pursuant to another statutorily mandated release provision deprived [the mental health facility] of the authority to detain [him].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Andrew B.
How this case has been treated — in progress
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