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← 288 ILL 442 - People v. Johnson

People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1919

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
8
states following
May 2021
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably The People v. Lawrence (1945), Zelney v. Murphy (1944)

26 state decisions

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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 Commonwealth v. Mixer · Hawthorn v. People · People v. Stokes · Burdick v. People · People v. Fernow

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It is contended by plaintiff in error that one might be guilty under this act by having a car in his possession from which the numbers had been removed without his knowledge. The constitution does not require that scienter be a necessary element of any law where an offense is malum prohibitum. One may violate the law without any intent on his part to do so. [Citations.] Various statutes of this State punishing the doing of acts without requiring allegation or proof of criminal intent upon the part of the doer have been upheld on the ground that they were a valid exercise of the police power. [Citations.] *** Laws can not be held invalid merely because some innocent person may possibly suffer. The principle of police regulation is, ‘the greatest good to the greatest number.’ ” 288 Ill. 442, 445-46 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 98 Ill. 2d 374 - People v. Brown

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.