62 Ill. 2d 323 - People v. Breen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 201 - People v. Taylor (1984), 94 Ill. 2d 138 - People v. Boykin (1983)
66 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 Ex parte United States · 14 Ill. 2d 95 - The People v. Smith · Dodge v. Cole · People ex rel. Boenert v. Barrett · 52 Ill. 2d 182 - Brokaw Hospital v. Circuit Court
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In imposing sentence, a judge should follow the law and should not compel persons brought before him to submit to some act or discipline without authority of law, whether or not he may think it would have a beneficial corrective influence." (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110A, par. 61(c)(18).)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with restitution. It appears that such order was without statutory authority but imposed under a prevailing local practice. The court stated that there is no merit in the contention that the judiciary possesses the inherent power to impose an obligation not provided by law. The court applied its Rule 61(c)(18) which, in pertinent part, provides:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Too, the practice of unnecessarily continuing cases for long periods of time runs counter to the expeditious disposition of litigation and the clear intent manifest in section 114-4(h) of the Code of Criminal Procedure [citation] that criminal cases shall be tried with due diligence."”
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.