61 Ill. App. 3d 376 - People v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2011
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 Kelsaw v. Oregon · 53 Ill. 2d 261 - People v. Burbank · 48 Ill. 2d 239 - The People v. Fox · Reece v. Craven · 18 Ill. App. 3d 971 - People v. Stephens
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he record demonstrates that defendant performed no acts which could have reasonably caused the court to conclude: (1) that defendant was suffering from a mental disorder during his trial; and (2) that a mental disorder caused him to lose all recognition of the proceeding's nature and purpose, or prevented him from producing an appropriate defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no right to select from or experiment with the counsel so appointed to the detriment of the orderly processes of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the expert medical testimony established that defendant's schizophrenic reaction had developed subsequent to trial.”
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.