95 Ill. App. 3d 297 - People v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Maus v. State (1987), 207 N.J. Super. 126 - State v. Reyes (1986)
31 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 Remington v. United States · 118 Ill. App. 2d 324 - People v. Walton · People v. Rodgers · 58 Ill. 2d 91 - People Ex Rel. Morrison v. Sielaff · Lock 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary that the sentences be spelled out with the nicety of a quadratic surd equation. Indeed, given the variables of good-time and other credits, no trial court could ever do so. The duty of the trial court is to make his intention clear and positively identify the sentences involved. [People v. Freeman, 95 Ill.App.3d 297, 302 , 50 Ill.Dec. 846, 850 , 420 N.E.2d 163, 167 (Ill.App.Ct. 1981).]”
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.