55 Ill. App. 3d 263 - People v. Sunquist’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1994
19 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 63 Ill. 2d 534 - People v. Bratcher · 57 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Williams · 56 Ill. 2d 187 - People v. Manzella · 32 Ill. App. 3d 736 - People v. Wright · 38 Ill. 2d 245 - The PEOPLE v. Underhill
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Therefore, because the jury found the defendant guilty of murder without being properly instructed that the State was required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant’s act was not justifiable self-defense, the judgment must be reversed and this cause remanded for a new trial.” 55 Ill. App. 3d 263, 268 , 370 N.E.2d 864, 867 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.