259 Ill. App. 3d 631 - People v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2019
11 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 79 Ill. 2d 129 - People v. Lindgren · 105 Ill. 2d 22 - People v. Stewart · 138 Ill. App. 3d 481 - People v. Kimbrough · 113 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Anderson · 111 Ill. App. 3d 551 - People v. Vanda
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] jury tainted by evidence of other crimes could just as easily, and unfairly, reject an insanity defense based on its belief that the defendant is an evil person as it could reject the defendant’s claim of innocence.” Chambers, 259 Ill. App. 3d at 636 . We are mindful that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of defendant's arrest at age 12 for arson and his many armed robberies of theaters and drug houses was not at all relevant to whether defendant was capable of forming the requisite criminal intent at the time of the murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that [he] was drug and alcohol dependent, that he suffered from * * * an anti-social personality, a narcissistic personality, and an unspecified personality disorder with sadistic traits.”
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.