71 Ill. 2d 151 - In Re Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 75 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. Knight (1979), 103 Ill. App. 3d 105 - People v. White (1982)
41 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 65 Ill. 2d 157 - People v. Davis · 66 Ill. 2d 346 - People v. Wilson · 14 Ill. 2d 243 - City of East St. Louis v. Touchette · 53 Ill. App. 2d 457 - Nogle v. Nogle · 49 Ill. App. 3d 580 - People v. Brown
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he contention that because the proof of age occurred at a different stage of the proceedings”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a hearing was held on [the respondent's] motion to suppress evidence due to the alleged illegality of his arrest.”
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.