86 Ill. App. 2d 480 - People v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis

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39 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 42 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 voluntary manslaughter if at the time of the killing he is acting under a sudden and intense passion resulting from serious provocation * * *; * * * * * * (b) A person who intentionally or knowingly kills an individual commits voluntary manslaughter if at the time of the killing he believes the circumstances to be such that, if they existed, would justify or exonerate the killing * * * but his belief is unreasonable." (Ill.Rev.Stat.1985, ch. 38, par. 9-2.)”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 72 Ill. App. 3d 171 - People v. Gore · 166 Ill. 2d 441 - People v. Lopez

2. ““By section [143] of the Criminal Code of this State manslaughter is defined as follows: ‘Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, express or implied, and without any mixture of deliberation whatever.’ To reduce the felonious killing of a human being from murder to manslaughter there must be no implication of malice from facts and circumstances proven, and there must be no deliberation whatever. Where a deliberate intent must be found to exist to constitute the act criminal, it is impossible that it should be found to exist without reflection or premeditation. In this case the intent with which the assault was committed is a necessary fact to be shown or implied to constitute the crime. When it appears there was an intent to take life, either express or implied, where the killing would not be excusable or justifiable, and an assault is made with that intent, then it would be an ássault with intent to commit murder. It would follow, therefore, that for one to assault another with intent to commit manslaughter would be a contradiction in terms. The People v. Lilley, 43 Mich. 521 .” ( 146 Ill. 600, 602 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 31 Ill. App. 3d 744 - People Ex Rel. Bassin v. Isreal

3. ““A person commits an attempt when, with intent to commit a specific offense, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that offense.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 38, par. 8—4.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 111 Ill. App. 3d 945 - People v. Reagan