108 Ill. App. 2d 384 - People v. Seipel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The defendant flies squarely in the face of the statute which bars prosecution only if there is either a conviction or an acquittal or a determination that the evidence is insufficient to warrant conviction on the first trial. * * * [Permitting the defendant to withdraw her plea and her waiver of indictment left her neither convicted nor acquitted of the charge. * * * There is fittle doubt that the prosecution would have carried on under the plea of guilty, but this wasn’t to defendant’s liking and she decided to take another tack. Having withdrawn her plea of guilty with the acquiescence of the People, she effectively scuttled the then pending information charging her with involuntary manslaughter. * * # The present prosecution is not barred through any proper concept of fairness nor for any of the reasons stated in the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 16 Ill. App. 3d 100 - People v. Smith

2. ““. . . There is nothing to indicate that defendant’s responses while he was under the influence of sodium pentathol were necessary for the jury to understand the psychiatrist’s findings or opinion based upon such examination. It was not error for the trial court to exclude testimony concerning defendant’s responses while under the influence of sodium pentathol.” (p. 333.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chase