161 Ill. App. 3d 967 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2020
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Williams v. People of State of New York · Brewer v. Williams · Maine v. Moulton · 68 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Perruquet
Most-quoted passages
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““The testimony regarding defendant’s conduct in relation to the prior shooting incident was relevant to a determination of a proper sentence in that it bore upon defendant’s natural inclination or aversion to commit crime; defendant had the opportunity to face and cross-examine the witnesses involved in the prior incident; and the accuracy of the information was not challenged at the sentencing hearing. (See People v. La Pointe (1981), 88 Ill. 2d 482, 498-99 , 431 N.E.2d 344 .) In this court defendant relies on the discrepancies between his statement regarding the shooting incident and the testimony presented at the sentencing hearing to conclude that the evidence of the shooting offense was unreliable and should have been excluded. Our review of the testimony concerning the prior shooting does not support defendant’s conclusion. Although discrepancies exist, the testimony considered as a whole is not so suspect as to render it inadmissible.” Wright, 161 Ill. App. 3d at 977 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Defendant maintains that evidence of a prior shooting incident should not have been admitted at his sentencing hearing. We note at the outset that the State asserts that defendant has waived this issue since he did not object at the hearing to the testimony adduced from the victims of the prior shooting incident. However, defendant did object to the admission of his written statement regarding his involvement in the shooting and to the admission of the written statement of one of the victims of the incident. We believe these objections were sufficient to preserve the issue for appellate review.” 161 Ill. App. 3d at 976 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that in a bench trial a post-trial motion is not necessary to preserve for review claims of error if such errors were in some manner brought to the attention of the trial court.”
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.