60 Ill. App. 3d 463 - People v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1995
14 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 Brady v. United States · 36 Ill. App. 3d 355 - People v. Henderson · United States v. Noveck · 33 Ill. App. 3d 124 - People v. Glanton · Mackin v. People
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perjury. (a) A person commits perjury when, under oath or affirmation, in a proceeding or in any other matter where by law such oath or affirmation is required, he makes a false statement, material to the issue or point in question, which he does not believe to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Illinois courts have required not only a filing, but, as we believe, use of the sworn statement before a trier [of fact].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“purpose of the perjury statute is, in part, to insure the validity of the fact-seeking process.”
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.