80 Ill. App. 3d 380 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 255 - People v. Ross (2008), 91 Ill. 2d 122 - In Re JN (1982)
52 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. App. 3d 471 - People v. Wheat · 73 Ill. App. 3d 449 - People v. Lee · 31 Ill. App. 3d 624 - Huber v. Maggio
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither the trial court nor the appellate court has the `authority to excuse compliance with the filing requirements of the supreme court rules governing appeals.'”
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.