57 Ill. 2d 152 - People v. Spicuzza’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 185 Ill. 2d 81 - People v. Kliner (1998), 34 Ill. App. 3d 185 - People v. Shannon (1975)
36 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 53 Ill. 2d 550 - People v. Zuniga · 54 Ill. 2d 372 - People v. Nunnery · 45 Ill. 2d 38 - The PEOPLE v. Johnson · People v. Spicuzza
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has repeatedly held, most recently in People v. Zuniga, 53 Ill. 2d 550 , that a motion for a change of judges constitutes delay occasioned by the defendant which will toll the 120-day period, and we see no reason to depart from that principle here.””
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.