72 Ill. 2d 531 - People v. Massarella’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 80 Ill. App. 3d 552 - People v. Massarella (1979), 65 Ill. App. 3d 831 - People v. Ballard (1978)
28 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 People v. Looney · 53 Ill. App. 3d 774 - People v. Massarella · 61 Ill. App. 2d 439 - People v. French
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Only the State's Attorney, his reporter and any other person authorized by the court or by law may attend the sessions of the Grand Jury. Only the grand jurors shall be present during the deliberations and vote of the Grand Jury. * * *" (Emphasis added.) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par. 112-6(a).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“assist the State's Attorney to the extent that he may discharge all those powers of the State's Attorney at all stages in a prosecution * * * where [the State's Attorney] does not object.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“attend * * * and assist in the prosecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.