60 Ill. App. 3d 848 - People v. Ephriam’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2017
19 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 65 Ill. 2d 157 - People v. Davis · 53 Ill. 2d 447 - People v. Crowell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful possession of firearms or firearm ammunition when: (1) He is under 18 years of age and has in his possession any firearm of a size which may be concealed upon the person[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he contention that because the proof of age occurred at a different stage of the proceedings”
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.