331 Ill. App. 3d 742 - People v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 185 Ill. 2d 532 - People v. Smith · 181 Ill. 2d 297 - People v. Williams · 87 Ill. 2d 216 - People v. Ogunsola · 69 Ill. 2d 61 - People v. Jenkins · 205 Ill. 2d 139 - People v. Moss
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While this court has previously held that jury instructions should be considered as a whole and not in isolation [citation], this proposition rests on the assumption that the jury instructions clearly and properly inform the jurors of the law. [Citations.] But when inconsistent instructions are presented to a jury, the jury's ability to perform its function is inhibited because the jury has not been adequately apprised of the law to be applied. [Citations.] When the instructions are confusing and create a situation in which the jurors believe they are forced to choose between conflicting elements within the instructions, as here, the instructions as a whole cannot be considered curative of the confusion." Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Darr“[T]he rule in Illinois is that when conflicting instructions are given, one of which is a correct statement of law and the other is an incorrect statement of law, the error is not harmless.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Darr
How this case has been treated — in progress
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