96 Ill. App. 3d 581 - People v. Gresham’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
December 1992
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Rugendorf v. United States · 77 Ill. 2d 396 - People v. Cross · 78 Ill. 2d 477 - People v. Tipton · 57 Ill. 2d 232 - People v. Lewis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The concept of committing the offense originates with the State or its agent, (2) who actively encourage the defendant to commit the offense, (3) for the purpose of obtaining evidence for his prosecution, and (4) the defendant was not predisposed to commit the offense.” (People v. Gresham (1981), 96 Ill. App. 3d 581, 584 (citing People v. Cross (1979), 77 Ill. 2d 396 ; People v. Lewis (1967), 80 Ill. App. 2d 101 ); Ill. Ann. Stat., ch. 38, par. 7—12, Committee Comments, at 440 (Smith-Hurd 1989).)”
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.