People v. Biers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The use of affirmative defenses is thus more a matter of convenience than anything else and does not violate the defendant's right to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt\ as the State is still required to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue.
• “The use of affirmative defenses is thus more a matter of convenience than anything else and does not violate the -4- defendant’s right to be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” as the State is still required to meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt as to that issue.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Houck
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-06-17· cited 34×
• People v. Harrawood
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-11-21· cited 30×
• People v. Redmond
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-29· cited 28×
• People v. Price
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-09-04· cited 27×
• People v. Meeks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-08-07· cited 22×
• People v. Kolichman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-07-30· cited 21×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-01-24· cited 20×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-07-31· cited 15×
• People v. Evans
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-03-02· cited 12×
• People v. McKnight
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-04· cited 10×
• People v. Ulloa
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-08-21· cited 10×
• People v. Boose
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-01-28· cited 8×
• People v. Simon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-10-16· cited 7×
• People v. Garcia
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-03-16· cited 6×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-30· cited 6×
• People v. Shimkus
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-08-15· cited 5×
• People v. Grandadam
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2016-01-29· cited 5×
• People v. Atchley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-06-10· cited 4×
• People v. Tate
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-06-23· cited 4×
• Ellis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1982-11-02· cited 4×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• The People v. Flynn
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-03-22· cited 84×
• The People v. Prohaska
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-05-23· cited 43×
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-02-28· cited 42×
• The People v. Robinson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-10-31· cited 21×
• People v. Hudson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1971-11-30· cited 19×
• The PEOPLE v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-01-23· cited 16×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-04-23· cited 14×
• People v. Hudson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-12-08· cited 9×
• People v. Everett
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-12-09· cited 6×
• People v. Holmes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-08-26· cited 3×