8 Ill. App. 3d 1045 - People v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 33 Ill. 2d 417 - The People v. Taylor · 73 Ill. App. 2d 168 - People v. Nordstrom · 120 Ill. App. 2d 367 - People v. Buell · 103 Ill. App. 2d 209 - People v. Jackson · 108 Ill. App. 2d 482 - People v. Forman
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Among the factors to be considered by a trial court in impos- • ing a sentence are the circumstances attending the commission of the offense so that the court can properly assess the protection for the public and the potential rehabilitation of the- accused.””
1 later decision 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.