355 Ill. Dec. 677 - People v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry · 202 Ill. 2d 499 - People v. Glisson · 138 Ill. 2d 487 - In Re Marriage of O'Neill · 215 Ill. 2d 397 - R.D. Masonry, Inc. v. Industrial Commission · 233 Ill. 2d 213 - People v. Howard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When construing a statute, this court's primary objective is to ascertain and give effect to the legislature's intent, keeping in mind that the best and most reliable indicator of that intent is the statutory language itself, given its plain and ordinary meaning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'High Mountain Church and Preschool,' " but no other testimony was offered to describe the school or its attendees. Id. ¶ 5. In light of legislative acquiescence and the Criminal Code's definition of the term "school,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hardman“means a public, private, or parochial elementary or secondary school, community college, college, or university and includes the grounds of a school.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Hardman
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.