68 Ill. 2d 269 - People v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009 · most notably Scott v. Illinois (1979), 110 Ill. App. 3d 821 - People v. Sebag (1982)
4 federal appellate · 24 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 Argersinger v. Hamlin · Juidice v. Vail · 63 Ill. 2d 408 - City of Danville v. Clark · 52 Ill. 2d 418 - People v. Morrissey · 323 So. 2d 539 - Nelson v. Tullos
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince the defendant was penalized only by fine, he was neither constitutionally nor statutorily entitled to have counsel present. The court was, therefore, under no obligation to obtain a waiver before proceeding to trial without counsel and, hence, was under no obligation to advise the defendant of his right to counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We are not inclined to extend Argersinger and Morrissey merely because a defendant is charged with a statutory offense which provides for various sentencing alternatives upon conviction.” 68 Ill. 2d 269, 272 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the rule we announce today, every judge will know when the trial of a misdemeanor starts that no imprisonment may be imposed, even though local law permits it, unless the accused is represented by counsel. He will have a measure of the seriousness and gravity of the offense and therefore know when to name a lawyer to represent the accused before the trial starts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. Illinois
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.