41 Ill. App. 3d 209 - People v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits involuntary manslaughter if his acts whether lawful or unlawful which cause the death are such as are likely to cause death or great bodily harm to some individual, and he performs them recklessly. (b) If the acts which cause the death consist of the driving of a motor vehicle, the person may be prosecuted for reckless homicide or if he is prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter, he may be .found guilty of the included offense of reckless homicide. (c) Sentence. (1) Involuntary manslaughter is a Class 3 felony. (2) Reckless homicide is a Class 4 felony.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 9—3.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 44 Ill. App. 3d 1030 - People v. Vitale

2. ““We can find no authority holding that, if wrongful conduct is later defined as a lesser offense while the defendant’s appeal is pending, the defendant is entitled to have his sentence reduced to conform to the penalty provision for the lesser offense.” People v. Gibson (1976), 41 Ill. App. 3d 209, 211 , 354 N.E.2d 71, 73 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 111 Ill. App. 3d 82 - People v. Jimerson