282 Ill. App. 3d 887 - People v. Medrano’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 178 Ill. 2d 509 - People v. Curry (1997), 326 Ill. App. 3d 914 - People v. Sample (2001)
32 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 168 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Arna · 91 Ill. 2d 346 - People v. Dixon · 131 Ill. 2d 387 - People v. Adams
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although section 5—8—4(a) does not specifically indicate that there must be a proximate connection between the Class X or Class 1 felony and the ‘grievous bodily injury’ suffered by the victim, such is a reasonable interpretation of the statute’s plain language, particularly in light of the statute’s purpose in punishing the defendant for those crimes which deserve ‘special treatment.’ [Citation.] It is also appropriate to read section 5—8—4(a) in this way in light of the established principle that any ambiguity in penal statutes should be construed in favor of the defendant.” Medrano, 282 Ill. App. 3d at 896 -97 n.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"The court shall not impose consecutive sentences for offenses which were committed as part of a single course of conduct during which there was no substantial change in the nature of the criminal objective, unless, one of the offenses for which defendant was convicted was a Class X or Class 1 felony and the defendant inflicted severe bodily injury, or where the defendant was convicted of a violation of Section 12-13 [criminal sexual assault] or 12-14 [aggravated criminal sexual assault] of the Criminal Code of 1961, in which event the court shall enter sentences to run consecutively." 730 ILCS 5/5-8-4(a) (West 1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.