50 Ill. App. 3d 860 - People v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably 86 Ill. App. 3d 719 - Merchandise Nat'l Bk. of Chicago v. Scanlon (1980), 394 Ill. App. 3d 781 - Todd W. Musburger, Ltd. v. Meier (2009)
27 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 State v. Rush · 35 Ill. 2d 24 - People Ex Rel. Conn v. Randolph · 159 W. Va. 805 - State Ex Rel. Partain v. Oakley · State v. Horton · Barger v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under contemporary circumstances it seems unrealistic to require that work which requires somewhat less expertise and experience must be personally performed by appointed counsel in order to be compensated. It would appear that certain delegated work in a case, always remaining the responsibility of appointed counsel and done under his supervision, when found to be economic and necessary should be compensated in some manner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“office overhead ... was intended to be included in the attorney's hourly rates.”
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.