218 Ill. App. 3d 764 - People v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 173 - People v. Glasper (2009), Dice v. State (1992)
52 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 67 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Manion
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(c) When a defendant is on trial for first degree murder and evidence of either of the mitigating factors *** has been presented, *** the burden of proof remains on the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the elements of first degree murder and, when appropriately raised, the absence of circumstances at the time of the killing that would justify or exonerate the killing [as self-defense].” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 38, par. 9—2(c).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[y]ou think it was easy for her to get up there and withstand [defense counsel's] cross-examination, [defense counsel's] little insinuations, [defense counsel's] cheap shots that she was doing something?'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant has the right to present a defense, present witnesses to establish a defense and to present his version of the facts to the trier of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Boston
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.