32 Ill. App. 3d 813 - People v. Mickelson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As a corollary to the attack on the sufficiency of the evidence, defendant specifies that the indictment charged him with delivering the heroin to ‘Robert Lacey’ and correctly notes that no one by that name testified or was even mentioned at the trial. Such a misnomer, however, is merely a formal defect and not a fundamental one [citation] and as long as the variance did not surprise the defendant or prevent him from properly preparing his case, we do not believe that this omission would justify reversal. [Citations.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 62 Ill. App. 3d 1049 - People v. McGovern

2. ““You should not find the defendant guilty unless the facts and circumstances proved exclude every reasonable theory of innocence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 40 Ill. App. 3d 537 - People v. Fletcher