72 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably United States v. Hocking (1988), Cramer v. Fahner (1982)
8 federal appellate · 38 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 53 Ill. 2d 585 - People v. Harvey · 53 Ill. 2d 572 - People v. Chupich · 60 Ill. 2d 300 - People v. Jones · 57 Ill. 2d 279 - People v. Mahle · 50 Ill. 2d 141 - People v. Fleming
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"‘ [W]here a case is tried by the court without a jury, the determination of the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony is committed to the trial judge; and, unless it can be said that the court’s judgment is found to rest on doubtful, improbable or unsatisfactory evidence, or clearly insufficient evidence, a reviewing court will not substitute its judgment for that of the court below even though evidence regarding material facts is conflicting and irreconcilable.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The essence of the crime of bribery is the giving to, and receiving or acceptance by, a public officer of something of value to influence him in the performance of his official duty, whether [the duty] be termed general or specific.’ ” Powell, 72 Ill. 2d at 62 , 377 N.E.2d at 808 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Jackson
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.