67 Ill. App. 2d 83 - People v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis

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31 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * Under Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, ch. 38, secs. 587 and 734, a witness may be cross-examined for the purpose of destroying his credibility only where he has been convicted of an infamous crime. Infamous crimes include murder, rape, indecent liberties with a child, perjury, kidnaping, burglary, etc. Disorderly conduct is not such an infamous crime, and furthermore, Rubio had not been convicted of such an offense, but only arrested and held on a charge. In the case before us, however, it was not intended to discredit the witness generally, but only to bring out that she had been charged with a criminal offense in order to show that the witness might be coloring her testimony because of an offer of immunity or leniency in an independent proceeding, or because of the coercive effect of her detention. [Citations.] In the instant case the defendant wished to bring this evidence before the jury so that the jury could consider Rubio’s testimony in the light of the fact that she was detained in jail by the People. In our opinion, the cross examination of Rubio was unduly restricted, and this ruling by the trial court was error.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 7 Ill. App. 3d 633 - People v. Baltimore

2. “"The trial judge denied the production of the requested statement solely upon the State's representation to him in an adversary proceeding that what was sought was merely a summary sheet * * *. In view of the fact that the trial judge never viewed the purported summary sheet and in view of the fact that the statement does not appear in the record before us, we find it impossible to blindly accept such a premise. * * * When an accused for impeachment purposes demands production of a witness' statement in the possession of the People and when the prosecution claims the statement is privileged, irrelevant or incompetent, the trial court is to examine the statement to determine if such claims are justified. [Citing cases.]"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 Ill. App. 3d 1026 - People v. Walker