375 Ill. App. 3d 796 - People v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 379 Ill. App. 3d 441 - People v. Spicer (2008), 392 Ill. App. 3d 277 - People v. Walker (2009)
86 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.
Relationships
Relies on 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 142 Ill. 2d 13 - People v. Streit · 292 Ill. App. 3d 776 - People v. Franks · 322 Ill. App. 3d 244 - People v. McDonald · 278 Ill. App. 3d 286 - People v. Juarez
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence which falls within the statutory range is not an abuse of discretion unless it is manifestly disproportionate to the nature of the offense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that a trial judge's sentencing decisions are entitled to great deference and will not be altered on appeal absent an abuse of discretion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court merely because it would have weighed these factors differently.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.