People v. Payton’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 197 Ill. 2d 404 - People v. Morgan · 62 Ill. 2d 568 - People v. Viser · 198 Ill. 2d 209 - People v. Villarreal · 173 Ill. 2d 273 - People v. Alvine · 326 Ill. App. 3d 914 - People v. Sample
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [Alt common law, homicide resulting from an assault committed with intent to inflict serious bodily harm was classified as murder. Consequently there was no confusion between degrees of murder if the same act were punishable as felony-murder as well. But with the advent of the codified degrees of homicide it became necessary to devise methods of preserving the distinctions between those degrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quillen v. State
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.