326 Ill. App. 3d 974 - People v. Sergeant’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2024
16 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 Strickland v. Washington · Apprendi v. New Jersey · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 193 Ill. 2d 203 - People v. Stacey · 136 Ill. 2d 27 - People v. Reid
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A factual finding is against the manifest weight of the evidence only if the opposite conclusion is readily apparent or when the finding appears to be unreasonable, arbitrary or not based on the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Robinson“The determination of whether a defendant's actions constitute a single course of conduct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Robinson
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.