378 Ill. App. 3d 157 - People v. Sipp’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2021
14 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 Hernandez v. New York · 226 Ill. 2d 92 - People v. Wheeler · 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen · 101 Ill. 2d 443 - People v. Ward · 152 Ill. 2d 274 - People v. Mitchell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[c]ertain factors may suggest whether a defendant acted recklessly and whether an involuntary manslaughter instruction is appropriate: disparity in size and strength between the defendant and the victim, the severity of the victim's injuries, whether the defendant used his bare fists or a weapon, whether there were multiple wounds, or whether the victim was defenseless." Eason , 326 Ill. App. 3d at 209 , 260 Ill.Dec. 102 , 760 N.E.2d 519 (citing DiVincenzo , 183 Ill. 2d at 251 , 233 Ill.Dec. 273 , 700 N.E.2d 981 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Johnson“Illinois courts have consistently held that when the defendant intends to fire a gun, points it in the general direction of his or her intended victim, and shoots, such conduct is not merely reckless and does not warrant an involuntary-manslaughter instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Johnson
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.