71 Ill. 2d 229 - In Re Vitale’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Illinois v. Vitale (1980), Sours v. State (1980)
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gault · Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the lesser offense, failing to reduce speed, requires no proof beyond that which is necessary for conviction of the greater, involuntary manslaughter, . . . for purposes of the double jeopardy clause, the greater offense is by definition the 'same' as the lesser offense included within it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Illinois v. Vitale · Sours v. State“"(a) When the same conduct of a defendant may establish the commisson of more than one offense, the defendant may be prosecuted for each such offense. (b) If the several offenses are known to the proper prosecuting officer at the time of commencing the prosecution and are within the jurisdiction of a single court, they must be prosecuted in a single prosecution, * * *." Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 3-3(a)(b).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits involuntary manslaughter if his acts whether lawful or unlawful which cause the death are such as are likely to cause death or great bodily harm to some individual, and he performs them recklessly. (b) If the acts which cause the death consist of the driving of a motor vehicle, the person may be prosecuted for reckless homicide or if he is prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter, he may be found guilty of the included offense of reckless homicide.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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