77 Ill. App. 3d 59 - People v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably 82 Ill. 2d 268 - People v. Cox (1980), 88 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. La Pointe (1982)
61 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 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet · 61 Ill. 2d 583 - People v. Bolyard · 76 Ill. 2d 171 - People v. Vance · 54 Ill. 2d 552 - People Ex Rel. Ward v. Moran · 69 Ill. 2d 252 - People v. Jackson
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is deviation from those objectives, in view of the standards and criteria therein set forth, which constitutes error. To hold otherwise would allow for ad hoc, instinctive decisions on appeal which could result in merely perpetuating disparity on a different level and which would certainly thwart the development of defined, objective standards. [People v. Cox, 77 Ill.App.3d 59, 32 Ill.Dec. 946, 952 , 396 N.E. 2d 59, 65 (1979), rev’d, 82 Ill.2d 268 , 45 Ill.Dec. 190 , 412 N.E.2d 541 (1980), quoted in State v. Roth, supra, 95 N.J. at 365 , 471 A.2d 370 .]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The defendant has the right of appeal in all cases from sentences entered on conviction of murder or any other Class of felony, however, in all such appeals there is a rebuttable presumption that the sentence imposed by the trial judge is proper. The court to which such appeal is properly taken is authorized to modify the sentence and enter any sentence that the trial judge could have entered.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 1005—5—4.1.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“enumerates specific, objective criteria (factors in aggravation and mitigation) which are to be considered in imposing or withholding various forms of punishment. (Ill. Rev. Stat., 1978 Supp., ch. 38, pars. 1005-5-3.1, 3.2, 5-8-2.) Finally in sentencing offenders for felony convictions the judge is required to set forth on the record his reasons for his sentencing determination. Ill. Rev. Stat., 1978 Supp., ch. 38, par. 1005-4-1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.