307 Ill. App. 3d 707 - People v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2014
24 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 People v. Green · 27 Cal. 3d 1 - People v. Green · 164 Ill. 2d 104 - People v. Jeffries · 62 Ill. 2d 568 - People v. Viser · 145 Ill. 2d 188 - People v. Schott
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The State *** presented general verdict forms, which obscure the basis for the jury’s verdict, and repeatedly encouraged the jury to deal only with the felony murder counts and to disregard evidence of [defendant’s] mental state. *** *** In this case, the prosecutor succeeded in diluting the intent requirement for knowing or intentional murder by charging felony murder and, as a result, [defendant] was denied a fair trial.” People v. Morgan, 307 Ill. App. 3d 707, 717 (1999).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he predicate felony underlying a charge of felony murder must involve conduct with a felonious purpose other than the killing itself. Because the record in this case fails to show the commission of a predicate felony that had an independent felonious purpose, we conclude that the trial court erred by instructing the jury that defendant could be convicted of first degree murder on a felony[-]murder theory.” Morgan, 307 Ill. App. 3d at 714 , 718 N.E.2d at 212 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Unless application of the felony-murder rule is limited to cases in which a killing occurs during the commission of a felony consisting of conduct other than that inherent in the killing itself, all deliberate killings and all fatal shootings may be charged as felony murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burkhart
How this case has been treated — in progress
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