39 Ill. 2d 307 - The PEOPLE v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2012 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), 124 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Wilk (1988)
54 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Link v. Wabash Railroad · Douglas v. People of State of California · United States v. Sorrentino
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For a representative system of litigation to function, it is self-evident that under most circumstances clients must be bound by the acts of their lawyers. However, it is equally self-evident that a mechanical application of this legal proposition can lead to harsh results repugnant to commonly held notions of justice and fair play. [Citation.] These results can be even harsher in a criminal case than a civil one since in the latter suit the aggrieved client has, in theory, a malpractice action against his attorney for damages, while in the former no attorney can restore his client’s lost liberty. * * * We find the consequence of the dismissal here most significant, for while the right of appeal in a criminal case is not per se of constitutional dimension [citation], any denial of it is subject to the due-process and equal-protection guarantees of the Federal and "State constitutions. Moreover, recent decisions have implemented this right, providing that indigents are entitled to competent appointed counsel on appeal [citation], even where pleas of guilty were made below [citation], and to free transcripts of the trial record. [Citation.] These decisions reflect courts’ concern with providing that any defendant who so desires can obtain at least one full appellate review of his conviction.” ( 39 Ill. 2d 307, 310-11 , 235 N.E.2d 562, 565 .)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]hile the right of appeal in a criminal case is not per se of constitutional dimension [citation], any denial of it is subject to the due-process and equal-protection guarantees of the Federal and State constitutions. Moreover, recent decisions have implemented this right, providing that indigents are entitled to competent appointed counsel on appeal [citation], even where pleas of guilty were made below * # These decisions reflect courts’ concern with providing that any defendant who so desires can obtain at least one full appellate review of his conviction.””
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.