337 Ill. App. 3d 819 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2023
22 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“the established, plain and ordinary meaning of 'apprehension' is a 'seizure, taking, or arrest of a person on a criminal charge.' " Id. at 1036 (quoting Black's Law Dictionary 101 (6th ed. 1990)). A subsequent edition of Black's Law Dictionary defines "apprehension”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. at 1036 (quoting Black's Law Dictionary 101 (6th ed. 1990)). A subsequent edition of Black's Law Dictionary defines”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.