49 Ill. App. 3d 116 - People v. Persinger’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably State v. Lind (1982), 231 Ill. App. 3d 510 - People v. Melgoza (1992)
39 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 Krulewitch v. United States · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Marietta Norton v. The Discipline Committee of East Tennessee State University · United States v. Dege · 53 Ill. 2d 95 - People v. Strother
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * °[B]ecause of the clandestine nature of a conspiracy and the foreseeable difficulty of the prosecution’s burden of establishing the conspiracy by direct proof, the courts have permitted broad inferences to be drawn of * * * [one’s] conspiratorial intent and agreement from evidence of acts, conduct, and circumstances.” 49 Ill. App. 3d 116, 121 , 363 N.E.2d 897, 901 .”
1 later decision 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.