409 Ill. App. 3d 574 - People v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2025
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, our supreme court has not articulated a specific burden of proof at sentencing and instead maintains that `relevance and reliability are the important factors in the consideration of evidence at sentencing.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`An abuse of discretion will be found only where the trial court's ruling is arbitrary, fanciful, unreasonable, or where no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the trial court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The State is not subject to the same burden of proof at a sentencing hearing as it is during the guilt phase of a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.