111 Ill. 2d 18 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 164 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Jeffries (1995), 192 Ill. 2d 93 - People v. Patterson (2000)
4 federal appellate · 100 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 Strickland v. Washington · 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer · 105 Ill. 2d 79 - People v. Gaines · 94 Ill. 2d 303 - People v. Tiller
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The definition of voluntary manslaughter in our criminal code does not contain language distinguishing it from murder in regard to the defendant’s intention or mental state. Voluntary manslaughter is in relevant part defined simply as criminal homicide committed by one 'acting under a sudden and intense passion resulting from serious provocation’ or acting in the mistaken belief that self-defense justified the use of deadly force. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 9 — 2.) There cannot be a judgment of voluntary manslaughter in the absence of one of these mitigating factors. Thus, murder cannot be reduced to manslaughter unless one of the two statutory conditions is present.” (Emphasis added.) Wright, 111 Ill. 2d at 28-29 .”
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.