76 Ill. 2d 392 - In Re Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Massameno v. Statewide Grievance Committee (1995), Carty v. Beech Aircraft Corp. (1982)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 United States v. Russell · Sorrells v. United States · Olmstead v. United States · 72 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Powell · 66 Ill. 2d 567 - In Re Taylor
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperilled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means— to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal — would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face.” 277 U.S. 438, 485 , 72 L. Ed. 944, 959-60 , 48 S. Ct. 564 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he integrity of the courtroom is so vital to the health of our legal system that no violation of that integrity, no matter what its motivation, can be condoned or ignored”) (plurality); id. at 295, 392 N.E.2d at 1340 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.