66 Ill. 2d 404 - People v. Heddins’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2022
22 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 Santobello v. New York · McCarthy v. United States · 256 F. Supp. 244 - United States Ex Rel. Elksnis v. Gilligan · United States v. Werker · 62 Ill. 2d 323 - People v. Breen
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.
“An order * * * need not be final and appealable in order that this court exercise its supervisory authority.”
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.