186 Ill. App. 3d 54 - People v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 63 Ill. 2d 534 - People v. Bratcher · 128 Ill. 2d 540 - People v. Turner · 79 Ill. 2d 96 - People v. Creach · 59 Ill. 2d 328 - People v. Redmond
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[n]ot every remark is specific enough to rise to the level of a direct threat or be so dire a warning as to reasonably instill the degree of fear of impending harm claimed to necessitate [the] defendant's actions and require an instruction on necessity.' (Emphasis added.) ( People v. James (1989), 180 Ill.App.3d 461, 465 , 129 Ill.Dec. 382 , 535 N.E.2d 1147, 1150 .)”
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.