253 Ill. App. 3d 37 - People v. Hager’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 O'Connor v. Donaldson · Foucha v. Louisiana · 140 Ill. App. 3d 216 - People v. Williams · 126 Ill. App. 3d 5 - People v. Smith · 167 Ill. App. 3d 73 - People v. Washington
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.
““The Court has considered all of the evidence in the case, the witnesses, the testimony, the exhibits and the stipulations. The Court is going to mention some of the evidence, but the Court will stress that the issue in the case is whether the defendant is mentally ill and because of his mental illness he is reasonably expected to inflict harm on himself or others. $ ^ $ Initially, People versus Csyz *** says that the decision to commit must be based on the defendant’s present conduct and state of mind. *** Conduct in the distant past, the Court does not feel is relevant. Conduct in the recent past, the Court feels is relevant. And that’s what the case law provides.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of (1) prior hospitalization with the underlying facts of that hospitalization and (2) defendant not taking his medication in the past and still not perceiving the value of continued medical treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even though a finding of dangerousness must be based on a specific medical opinion regarding defendant's possible future conduct, there does not need to be an expectation of immediate danger.”
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.