283 Ill. App. 3d 86 - People v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 339 Ill. App. 3d 891 - People v. Ramos (2003), 297 Ill. App. 3d 1089 - In Interest of Marcus H. (1998)
30 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 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 91 Ill. 2d 346 - People v. Dixon · 101 Ill. 2d 366 - People v. Hicks · 125 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. O'NEAL · 155 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Sutherland
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If a reviewing court reverses a conviction on which the sentence was imposed, it can remand for sentencing on a conviction on which no sentence was imposed. Such process has been approved in People v. Dixon, 91 Ill.2d 346 [ 63 Ill.Dec. 442 , 438 N.E.2d 180 ] (1982) * * *." Cooper, 283 Ill.App.3d at 97 , 218 Ill.Dec. 494 , 669 N.E.2d 637 (Greiman, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Where the sentence chosen by the trial court is within the statutory range permissible for the pertinent criminal offense for which the defendant has been tried and charged, a reviewing court has the power to disturb the sentence only if the trial court abused its discretion in the sentence it imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In sentencing a defendant, a trial court must balance the retributive and rehabilitative purposes of the punishment taking into account both the seriousness of the offense and the objective of restoring the offender to useful citizenship.”
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.