People v. Rock’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
January 2022
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · People v. Rivera · People v. Bartowsheski · Woellhaf v. People
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to be included, every alternative way of committing a lesser offense, only one of which is "required," therefore need not be "contained" in the statutory definition of that greater offense. To be an included offense, it is enough that any particular set of elements sufficient for conviction of that offense be so contained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be made to suffer simultaneous convictions for greater and lesser included offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent that a lesser offense is statutorily defined in disjunctive terms, effectively providing alternative ways of being committed, any set of elements sufficient for commission of that lesser offense necessarily established by establishing the statutory elements of a greater offense constitutes an included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Friend v. People
How this case has been treated — in progress
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