27 Ill. 2d 557 - The PEOPLE v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sherman v. United States · 21 Ill. 2d 320 - The People v. Strong · 13 Ill. 2d 21 - The People v. Outten · 19 Ill. 2d 176 - The People v. Aldridge · 24 Ill. 2d 425 - The People v. Wilson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Entrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer or other person and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, fraud, or persuasion of the entrapper----””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. State
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.