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9 Illinois opinions name it 2 courts 1964–2022 3 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Illinois courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
People v. Handygreen2 sentences2021See also Handy, 2019 IL App (1st) 170213, ¶¶ 1, 38, 40, 42 (rejecting an 18-year-old offender’s as-applied proportionate penalties challenge to his 60-year prison sentence and affirming the denial of leave to file a successive petition, at least in part because the House defendant was a mere lookout while the Handy defendant active participated in his offenses). ¶ 21 Here, defendant has an actual sentence of natural life imprisonment rather than a de facto life sentence (see Buffer, 2019 IL 122327, ¶ 40 (a prison sentence of more than 40 years is a de facto life sentence)) and that sentence wa 2020See also Handy, 2019 IL App (1st) 170213, ¶¶ 1, 38, 40, 42 (rejecting an 18-year-old offender’s as-applied proportionate penalties challenge to his 60-year prison sentence and affirming the denial of leave to file a successive petition, at least in part because the House defendant was a mere lookout while the Handy defendant active participated in his offenses). ¶ 21 Here, defendant has an actual sentence of natural life imprisonment rather than a de facto life sentence (see Buffer, 2019 IL 122327, ¶ 40 (a prison sentence of more than 40 years is a -9- No. 1-17-1274 de facto life sentence)) an | 2 | 2 |
People v. Buffergreen2 sentences2021See also Handy, 2019 IL App (1st) 170213, ¶¶ 1, 38, 40, 42 (rejecting an 18-year-old offender’s as-applied proportionate penalties challenge to his 60-year prison sentence and affirming the denial of leave to file a successive petition, at least in part because the House defendant was a mere lookout while the Handy defendant active participated in his offenses). ¶ 21 Here, defendant has an actual sentence of natural life imprisonment rather than a de facto life sentence (see Buffer, 2019 IL 122327, ¶ 40 (a prison sentence of more than 40 years is a de facto life sentence)) and that sentence wa 2020See also Handy, 2019 IL App (1st) 170213, ¶¶ 1, 38, 40, 42 (rejecting an 18-year-old offender’s as-applied proportionate penalties challenge to his 60-year prison sentence and affirming the denial of leave to file a successive petition, at least in part because the House defendant was a mere lookout while the Handy defendant active participated in his offenses). ¶ 21 Here, defendant has an actual sentence of natural life imprisonment rather than a de facto life sentence (see Buffer, 2019 IL 122327, ¶ 40 (a prison sentence of more than 40 years is a -9- No. 1-17-1274 de facto life sentence)) an | 2 | 2 |
Walden v. Fioregreen1 sentence2020See Walden, 571 U.S. at ___ , 134 S. Ct. at 1122 (observing that the minimum contacts analysis for specific jurisdiction focuses on “the defendant’s contacts with the forum State itself, not the defendant’s contacts with persons who reside there”). ¶ 55 Plaintiffs, however, claim that the Lewises and Gilbert negotiated over the terms of the rental house, in particular over the Lewises’ house rule of no events or parties. | 1 | 1 |
Zenith Co. v. Industrial Commissiongreen1 sentence1996Finally, in Zenith Co. v. Industrial Comm’n, 91 Ill. 2d 278, 286 (1982), the supreme court held that a claimant’s selling hot dogs from a truck with his family for a few hours a day for six months out of a year did not amount to self-employment that barred his TTD benefits. | 1 | 1 |
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Industrial Commissiongreen1 sentence1996Then, in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Industrial Comm’n, 76 Ill. 2d 197, 202 (1979), the supreme court held that a claimant’s spending two days painting a house did not bar the award for temporary and total disability. | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Illinois. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
People v. House
green
1 sentence2022House, 2021 IL 125124, ¶ 29 . ¶ 125 Importantly for the present case, the supreme court wrote the following in explanation of its reversal of the appellate court in House: “[T]he appellate court’s opinion equating young adult offenders to juvenile offenders relied on articles from a newspaper and an advocacy group. | 1 | 2022–2022 |
People v. Harris
green
1 sentence2022The supreme court noted, as it did in People v. Harris, 2018 IL 121932, ¶ 40 , that no evidentiary hearing was held relating to how the evolving science on juvenile maturity and brain development applied to the specific facts and circumstances of the House defendant’s case. | 1 | 2022–2022 |
People v. Cline
green
1 sentence2022As the State points out, no trial court has made factual findings concerning the scientific research cited in the articles, the limits of that research, or the competing scientific research, let alone how that research applies to petitioner’s characteristics and circumstances.” Id. ¶ 55 We note that although three justices of the Illinois Supreme Court concurred in part and dissented in part with the appellate court’s opinion in House, none of those three justices expressed any disagreement with the above statement. ¶ 56 Even though House is only a few months old, any doubt about the supreme c | 1 | 2022–2022 |
People v. Clemons
green
2 sentences1992The court found that although “defendant’s statement does not make clear whether he took the dollar immediately after the first attack or whether he took it after returning to the house from the bar, a point at which his father was already dead, either case supports the jury’s verdict.” (People v. Clemons, 179 Ill. 1992App. 3d at 672-73 .) The court rejected defendant’s argument that the purpose of using force against the victim was for murder, not for robbing him of the $1; instead finding that he used the force “not only as a means to kill, but also as a means to take property.” (People v. Clemons, 179 Ill. | 1 | 1992–1992 |
Freehling v. Development Management Group, Inc.
green
1 sentence1981In interpreting a covenant, the general rule has been to construe its language strictly (Freehling v. Development Management Group, Inc. (1979), 75 Ill. | 1 | 1981–1981 |
Foreen v. Stratton
neutral
1 sentence1964(See Foreen v. Sratton, 9 Ill.2d 618 ; People ex rel. | 1 | 1964–1964 |
Counted by distinct opinions that both name this issue and are annotated to the section; sections every opinion cites regardless of issue are not filtered here, so read the counts against the total above.
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.