The People v. Redlich’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably People Ex Rel. Wallace v. Labrenz (1952), 3 Ill. 2d 375 - La Salle National Bank v. City of Chicago (1954)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 127 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 Rothschild & Co. v. Sons Piano Manufacturing Co. · Chicago City Bank & Trust Co. v. Board of Education · The People v. Sims · People ex rel. Brundage v. Peters · Tuttle v. Gunderson
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Imprisonment imposed for a criminal contempt is purely punitive and must be for a definite term. [Citations.] But in cases of civil contempt, the sentence being imposed as a remedial or [coercive] measure, the appropriate punishment is to commit the contumacious party to imprisonment until he has complied with the mandate of the court, since a fine or imprisonment for a specified term might not secure obedience to the order." People v. Redlich , 402 Ill. 270 , 277, 83 N.E.2d 736 (1949).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the issues involved in the trial court no longer exist' because intervening events * * * [have] render[ed] it impossible for the [reviewing] court to grant the complaining party effectual relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`presents or involves no actual controversy, interests or rights of the parties, or where the issues have ceased to exist.'”
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.