Gibbs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2017
7 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 King v. Commonwealth · Coleman v. State · The People v. Sikes · McClaskey v. State · 58 Ill. App. 3d 180 - People v. Friesen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding of proximate cause embodies a - value judgment as to the extent of the physical consequences of an action for ‘Which the actor should be held responsible. Accordingly, - “proximate cause questions are often couched in terms of •‘foreseeability;’ an actor is not held re- . sponsible for consequences which are unforeseeable.” It- follows that, where an intervening cause is claimed as' superseding the defendant’s actions, the intervening cause is, claimed as superseding the defendant’s actions, the intervening cause must be unforeseeable to relieve the defendant of criminal liability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.