Poling v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Richardson v. State · 139 Ill. 2d 172 - People v. Christy · In re Conn · Conner v. State · Laughner v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“penalties so disproportionate to the nature of the offense as to amount to clear constitutional infirmity sufficient to overcome the presumption of constitutionality afforded to legislate decisions about penalties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. State“offenses with identical elements [are] given different sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. State
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.