Williams v. Staples’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
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cited by 1 later decisions
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states following
January 2004
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 147 Ill. 2d 326 - People v. Frieberg · 195 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Hall · People v. M.D. · 143 Ill. 2d 225 - People v. Splett · 195 Ill. 2d 96 - Yang v. City of Chicago
Most-quoted passages
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““Senator Sangmeister, it seemed to me that the unfit to ... or not guilty by reason of insanity, that we had a provision in there that would have kept the individual under the jurisdiction of the court for the same period of time as though he had been found guilty. Have we ... have we changed that section at all? That was a bill that we passed here ... I had sponsored here a couple of years ago and I want to make sure that we’re not affecting that particular provision.” 81st Ill. Gen. Assem., Senate Proceedings, June 30, 1980, at 27-28 (statements of Senator Nimrod).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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