207 Ill. 2d 434 - People v. Pelt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 213 Ill. 2d 459 - People v. Davis (2004), 233 Ill. 2d 244 - People v. Davis (2009)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho · 197 Ill. 2d 404 - People v. Morgan · 62 Ill. 2d 568 - People v. Viser · 206 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Johnson · 207 Ill. 2d 122 - People v. Jones
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant’s statement indicated that he was upset when the infant would not stop crying, and that he tried to throw him to the bed. He stated that he apparently threw him too far ‘[be]cause he hit the dresser.’ The act of throwing the infant forms the basis of defendant’s aggravated battery conviction, but it is also the same act underlying the killing. Therefore, as in Morgan, it is difficult to conclude that the predicate felony underlying the charge of felony murder involved conduct with a felonious purpose other than the conduct which killed the infant.” Pelt, 207 Ill. 2d at 442 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the acts constituting forcible felonies arise from and are inherent in the act of murder itself, those acts cannot serve as predicate felonies for a charge of felony murder.”
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.