People v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2023
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sullivan v. Louisiana · Victor v. Nebraska · 225 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. Piatkowski · 215 Ill. 2d 167 - People v. Herron · 102 Ill. 2d 181 - People v. Krankel
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“long and consistently held that neither the trial court nor counsel should define reasonable doubt to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Green“The plain error doctrine is a narrow and limited exception to the general rule of procedural default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Stephens“are not waived by failure to make timely objections thereto if the interests of justice require.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Radford
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.