3 Ill. App. 3d 943 - People v. Cornwall’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2004
9 federal appellate · 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 Dipson Theatres, Inc. v. Buffalo Theatres, Inc. · Shotwell Manufacturing Co. v. United States · 12 Ill. 2d 265 - The PEOPLE v. Cox · United States v. Bradford · 39 Ill. 2d 73 - The PEOPLE v. Kamsler
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person imprisoned in the penitentiary who asserts that in the proceedings which resulted in his conviction there was a substantial denial of his rights under the Constitution of the United States or the State of Illinois or both may institute a proceeding under this Article.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Buford
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.