State v. Ortega’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably State v. Gattis (1986), State v. Foster (1974)
27 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 State v. McAfee · 28 Ill. 2d 441 - The People v. Johnson · State v. Seal · State v. Buchanan · State v. Hinojos
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] specific intent to commit a felony ... is an essential element of the state's case to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. The gravamen of the offense of burglary is the intent with which the [home] is entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elliott““Burglary consists of the unauthorized entry of any . . . , dwelling . . . , with the intent to commit any felony or theft therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gunzelman
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.