24 Ill. App. 3d 1062 - People v. Slaton’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. John W. (1980), 57 Ill. App. 3d 164 - People v. Justus (1978)
21 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 Lewis v. City of New Orleans · 3 Ill. App. 2d 551 - Oratowski v. Civil Service Commission · 45 Ill. 2d 258 - City of Chicago v. Perez · 131 Ill. App. 2d 591 - City of Chicago v. Hopson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An officer of the law must exercise the greatest degree of restraint in dealing with the public. He must not conceive that every threatening or insulting word, gesture, or motion amounts to disorderly conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(a) A person commits disorderly conduct when he knowingly: (1) Does any act in such unreasonable manner as to alarm or disturb another and to provoke a breach of the peace; * * *.””
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.