406 Ill. App. 3d 503 - People v. Cathey’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In this appeal, defendant first contends that the circuit court erred in dismissing his pro se petition as frivolous and patently without merit because he set forth the gist of a claim that the trial court violated his constitutional rights as set forth in People v. Patrick, 233 Ill.2d 62 , 330 Ill.Dec. 149 , 908 N.E.2d 1 (2009), when it delayed ruling on his motion in limine to exclude evidence of his prior convictions, made pursuant to People v. Montgomery, 47 Ill.2d 510 , 268 N.E.2d 695 (1971), until after he had testified. * * * In Patrick, 233 Ill.2d at 69-73 , 330 Ill.Dec. 149 , 908 N.E.2d 1 , our supreme court held that a trial court's failure to rule on a motion in limine on the admissibility of prior convictions when it has sufficient information to do so constitutes an abuse of discretion and infringes on a defendant's right to testify in his own behalf." 406 Ill.App.3d at 505-06 , 347 Ill.Dec. 168 , 942 N.E.2d 1 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 358 Ill. Dec. 630 - People v. Cathey

2. “Patrick, which announced a new constitutional rule of criminal procedure, was not decided until after the completion of defendant's trial and direct appeal, and we therefore conclude that counsel was not ineffective for failing to challenge the trial court's delay in ruling on his motion in defendant's posttrial motion for a new trial or on direct appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 358 Ill. Dec. 630 - People v. Cathey

3. “[T]he decision of whether to submit an instruction on a lesser included offense is typically considered to be one of trial strategy that has no bearing on the competency of counsel because counsel could have reasonably believed that the instruction would have converted a likely acquittal into a likely conviction of the lesser crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. White