90 Ill. App. 2d 388 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2017
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person commits theft when he knowingly: * * * (d) Obtains control over stolen property knowing the property to have been stolen by another or under such circumstances as would reasonably induce him to believe that the property was stolen, and (1) Intends to deprive the owner permanently of the use or benefit of the property."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Defendant did not move to quash the complaint until after the State had rested its case. * * * We are constrained to hold that, no objection having been made in apt time, if any defect did in fact exist in the verification of the complaint, defendant is deemed to have waived them."”
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.