94 Ill. App. 3d 159 - People v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
June 1991
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Cuyler v. Sullivan · 72 Ill. 2d 421 - People v. Murphy · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer · 48 Ill. 2d 500 - The PEOPLE v. Frank
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A proper respect for the Sixth Amendment disarms petitioner’s contention that defendants who retain their own lawyers are entitled to less protection than defendants for whom the State appoints counsel. * * * [W]e see no reason for drawing a distinction • * (Cuyler v. Sullivan (1980), 446 U.S. 335, 344-45 , 64 L. Ed. 2d 333, 344 , 100 S. Ct. 1708, 1716 .)”
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.