393 Ill. App. 3d 414 - People v. Bauer’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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

1. “even if the defendant's theory provided a valid defense for her actions, we note that the defendant presented no evidence that such an expert in fact existed who would testify in support of her theory. Indeed, appellate counsel, when representing the defendant on her posttrial motion, did not submit an offer of proof as to how an expert would have testified on her behalf. As this court will not speculate as to whether such an expert could have been found, we will not find trial counsel ineffective on this basis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 358 Ill. Dec. 403 - People v. Watson

2. “A defendant is entitled to an instruction on his theory of the case if there is some foundation for the instruction in the evidence, and if there is such evidence, it is an abuse of discretion for the trial court to refuse to so instruct the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2018 IL App (2d) 160919 - People v. Najar

3. “The purpose of jury instructions is to provide jurors with correct principles of law that apply to the evidence that has been submitted to them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2018 IL App (2d) 160919 - People v. Najar