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331 Ill. App. 3d 118 - People v. Muzzarelli’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
3
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2026

13 state decisions

80200220102020decided

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 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 108 Ill. 2d 243 - Glazewski v. Coronet Insurance Co. · 38 Ill. 2d 255 - The People v. Patrick · 145 Ill. 2d 287 - People v. Hagan · 40 Ill. App. 3d 256 - People v. Kent

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

  1. “To establish the offense of forgery, the State must prove that a defendant (1) had an intent to defraud; (2) knowingly made or altered a document; (3) did so in such a manner that the document purported to have been made by another; and (4) that the document was apparently capable of defrauding another”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Cunefare
  2. “apparently capable of defrauding another includes one by which any right, obligation, or power with reference to any person or property may be created, transferred, altered, or terminated.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Cunefare
  3. “could have altered his right and obligation to impose a proper sentence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. People v. Cunefare

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.