People v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• “A belief that the decedent, unarmed, might kill or greatly injure the defendant” while the defendant was armed with a firearm, was unreasonable
• defendant’s belief that an unarmed man was about to cause her great bodily harm was unreasonable, and she was not justified in shooting him, even after he threatened to kill her, walked after her and snatched off her wig

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Ellis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-06-23· cited 49×
• People v. Foster
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-02-28· cited 21×
• People v. Chatman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-12-18· cited 20×
• People v. Diaz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-05-04· cited 18×
• People v. Parks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-07-25· cited 15×
• People v. Chapman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-06-08· cited 15×
• People v. Mosley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-02-01· cited 11×
• People v. Milton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-24· cited 10×
• People v. Owens
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-02-03· cited 10×
• People v. Dixon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-05-28· cited 7×
• People v. Thompson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-12-08· cited 7×
• People v. Henry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-07-07· cited 7×
• People v. Padilla
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-12-09· cited 6×
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-11-21· cited 5×
• People v. Woods
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-12-27· cited 5×
• People v. Vance
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-10-04· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. Baker
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-03-20· cited 122×
• The People v. Fox
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1971-03-16· cited 111×
• People v. Holtzman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-11-18· cited 72×
• The People v. Jordan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-01-22· cited 71×
• The PEOPLE v. Pelegri
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-05-29· cited 52×
• People v. Adams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-07-23· cited 21×
• People v. Kendricks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-04-13· cited 13×
• People v. Drake
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-06-17· cited 7×