182 Ill. App. 3d 13 - People v. Fercsi’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Engle v. Isaac · Patterson v. New York · 123 Ill. 2d 184 - People v. Reddick · 124 Ill. 2d 533 - In Re Petition of Village of Kildeer · 117 Ill. 2d 271 - People v. Erickson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the voluntary manslaughter instruction in conjunction with the murder instruction fails to inform the jury that the State bears the burden of disproving the mitigating mental states necessary to reduce a murder charge to manslaughter. According to the Reddick court, such a combination of instructions, if followed by a jury, eliminates the possibility of a defendant being convicted of voluntary manslaughter since the only way a mitigating mental state can be proved is by the defendant, rather than by the State.” People v. Fercsi (1989), 182 Ill. App. 3d 13, 15 , 537 N.E.2d 912, 913 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Pardieck
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.