141 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Tye’s Empirical Analysis

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143 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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” (Emphasis in original.) Jackson v. Virginia (1979), 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 61 L. Ed. 2d 560, 573 , 99 S. Ct. 2781, 2789 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 265 Ill. App. 3d 543 - People v. Oliver · 261 Ill. App. 3d 576 - People v. Wages

2. ““The Court’s already made a finding that your behavior, Mr. Tye, on the date in question was exceptionally brutal and heinous and indicative of wanton cruelty. I heard testimony in this courtroom about what you did. I also saw the photographs about what you did. What you did is you savagely brutalized three, four year old child. Defenseless child, innocent child. All she did to you was refused to go to bed, if I were to believe that portion of your testimony. You inflicted hundreds of wounds upon her body. You broke her arm. You dislocated her shoulder to such a degree that her little body went into shock. That’s a mechanism the body has to shut off the pain and that’s what caused her death. And I have to consider what you did and contrast what you did with any mitigation that’s presented here today in your behalf and determine whether or not that mitigation is sufficient to preclude the imposition of the death penalty. In evaluating your acts I, as a jury, *** have a right to draw upon my experiences in life to determine how serious your crime was. And I’ll state for the record that for a period of seven years I was a homicide detective in the City of Chicago; and I investigated numerous child beatings. I investigated numerous child deaths. And I spent a total 25 years in the criminal justice system. And I have never seen a child beaten with such viciousness, repeatedly beaten over an hour to the extent her death was caused.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 323 Ill. App. 3d 872 - People v. Tye

3. “A reviewing court will not set aside a criminal conviction on grounds of insufficient evidence unless the proof is so improbable or unsatisfactory that there exists a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt. When considering the sufficiency of the evidence, it is not the function of a reviewing court to retry the defendant. Rather, the relevant question is whether, after reviewing all of the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational fact finder could have found beyond a reasonable doubt the essential elements of the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 337 Ill. App. 3d 106 - People v. Cooper