129 Ill. App. 3d 189 - People v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 115 Ill. 2d 238 - People v. Sanchez (1986), 266 Ill. App. 3d 947 - People v. Anderson (1994)
34 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 B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Logarusic v. United States · 91 Ill. 2d 536 - People v. Huckstead · 96 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. McKibbins · Williams v. Illinois; Dixon v. Illinois; Yates v. Illinois
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere presence at the scene of the crime is insufficient to prove guilt of that crime.” The trial court declined to make such an instruction and, instead, utilized a number of pattern instructions, including Illinois Pattern Jury Instruction, Criminal, No. 5.03 (2d ed. 1981), which addresses the law of accountability. Thus, defendant believes that he was denied the opportunity to present his theory of the case. We disagree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Approved pattern instructions are to be used generally, and may be modified or supplemented only when the facts of the particular case make them inadequate.” (People v. Mitchell (1984), 129 Ill. App. 3d 189, 199 , 472 N.E.2d 114 .)”
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.