Allen v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 35 district · 580 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 789 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Rose v. Clark (1986), Kansas v. Hendricks (1997)
85 federal appellate · 35 district · 580 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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 Mathews v. Eldridge · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Boyd v. United States · Malloy v. Hogan
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 789 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the clearest proof' that `the statutory scheme [is] so punitive either in purpose or effect as to negate [the State's] intention' that the proceeding be civil....”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nos. 96-5132, 96-5416 · In Re GRH“shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he State has disavowed any interest in punishment, provided for the treatment of those it commits, and established a system under which committed persons may be released after the briefest time in confinement. The Act thus does not appear to promote either of the traditional aims of punishment — retribution and deterrence.”
8 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.