89 Ill. 2d 308 - People v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 23 - People v. Caballero (1984), 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005)
102 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · 79 Ill. 2d 410 - People v. Bradley · 63 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Mayberry · 77 Ill. 2d 243 - People v. Nunn
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Possession or delivery of a noncontrolled substance under section 404 still subjects one to a greater fine than may be imposed under sections 401(e) or (f) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 561/2, par. 1401).” ( 89 Ill. 2d 308, 310 , 433 N.E.2d 267, 268 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Burks“not logical to believe that the legislature intended to punish one who delivers a noncontrolled substance more severely than one who delivers a controlled substance,”
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.