56 Ill. 2d 328 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 30 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘It reasonably might be anticipated that an attempted robbery would meet with resistance, during which the victim might be shot either by himself or someone else in attempting to prevent the robbery, and those attempting to perpetrate the robbery would be guilty of murder.’ It is unimportant that the defendant did not anticipate the precise sequence of events that followed upon his entry into the apartment of Judy Tolbert. His unlawful acts precipitated those events, and he is responsible for the consequences.” 56 Ill. 2d 328, 333-34 , 307 N.E.2d 353, 355-56 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 88 Ill. App. 3d 825 - People v. Boyd · 173 Ill. App. 3d 300 - People v. Davis

2. ““(a) A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits murder if, in performing the acts which cause the death: see (3) He is attempting or committing a forcible felony other than voluntary manslaughter.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a))3).) “A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another when: s s s (b) The statute defining the offense makes him so accountable; or (c) Either before or during the commission of an offense, and with the intent to promote or facilitate such commission, he solicits, aids, abets, agrees or attempts to aid, such other person in the planning or.commission of the offense.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 5—2(b), (c).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 88 Ill. App. 3d 825 - People v. Boyd · 59 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Hickman

3. ““A person commits the offense of first degree murder when he commits the offense of attempt armed robbery and during the course of the commission of the offense of attempt armed robbery he sets in motion a chain of events which causes the death of an individual and the death is a direct and foreseeable consequence of the actions. It is immaterial whether the killing in such a case is intentional or accidental or committed by a confederate without the connivance of the defendant or even by a third person trying to prevent the commission of the felony. To sustain the charge of first degree murder, the State must prove *** that the defendant, or one for whose conduct he is legally responsible, was committing the offense of attempt armed robbery; and, second, that during the course of the commission of the offense of attempt armed robbery, the defendant, or one for whose conduct he is legally responsible, set in motion a chain of events that, as a direct and foreseeable consequence thereof, caused the death of Chrispin Thomas. And, third, that the defendant did not act under compulsion. If you find from your consideration of all the evidence that each one of these propositions has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant guilty. If you find from your consideration of all the evidence that any one of these propositions has not been proved beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant not guilty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 354 Ill. App. 3d 648 - People v. Hudson