123 Ill. App. 2d 190 - People v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

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29 state decisions

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

1. ““* * * ‘if there is any evidence in the record which, if believed by the jury, would reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter, an instruction defining that crime should be given.’ ° ° * it is immaterial that the defendant did not request a manslaughter instruction, or objected to it. # e * It is only where the evidence establishes that the defendant is guilty of murder or is not guilty, as for example in cases in which the defense is alibi, or mistaken identity, that a defendant may be said to have a right not to have the jury charged as to the lesser included offenses."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 16 Ill. App. 3d 504 - People v. Vega

2. ““* * ” although voluntary intoxication, in a proper case, might reduce the degree of homicide from murder to voluntary manslaughter so that a defendant’s voluntary manslaughter instruction must be given to the jury, it does not reduce it one degree lower to involuntary manslaughter.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 30 Ill. App. 3d 112 - People v. Cooper