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← 753 SW2D 382 - Reyes v. State

Reyes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
4
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Rose v. State (1988), State v. Huebner (2000)

2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

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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 Relford v. Commandant, U. S. Disciplinary Barracks · Meshell v. State · Colden v. Alexander · 76 Ill. App. 3d 595 - Melbourne Corp. v. City of Chicago · 61 Ill. App. 3d 621 - People v. Nicholson

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A]n unconstitutional statute is void from its inception and cannot provide a basis for any right or relief.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. McGowan v. State · Ex parte Mitcham
  2. “It is the general rule that an unconstitutional statute, even though having the form and name of law, in reality is no law and in legal contemplation is as inoperative as if it had never undergone the formalities of enactment. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it was prior to its ineffectual enactment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Egbert v. NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
  3. “[A] void law is no law and confers no rights, bestows no power on anyone and justifies no act performed under it.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. McGowan v. State

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.