People v. Ellison

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting state's claim that general jury instruction on elements of theft and burglary were sufficient when a mistake of fact has been adequately raised
• reversed and remanded for new trial, as “borderline mentally retarded” defendant was entitled to mistake-of-fact instruction to show he did not “knowingly” participate in robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Mahaffey
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1995-03-30· cited 129×
• People v. Crane
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-11-27· cited 97×
• People v. Kokoraleis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-11-13· cited 53×
• People v. Larry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-06-24· cited 31×
• People v. Burke
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-16· cited 27×
• People v. Valdez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-06-29· cited 21×
• People v. Santiago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-09-22· cited 16×
• Stagner v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1992-11-25· cited 13×
• People v. Phillips
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-03-27· cited 13×
• People v. Nau
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-03-11· cited 11×
• People v. Henderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-09-28· cited 10×
• People v. Bernasco
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-06-27· cited 9×
• People v. Crane
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-03-21· cited 8×
• People v. Christomos
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-07-21· cited 6×
• People v. Tackett
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-07-09· cited 4×
• People v. Calhoun
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-02-13· cited 3×
• People v. Rabus
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-11-30· cited 1×
• People v. Atherton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-05-02· cited 1×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Murphy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-10-06· cited 307×
• The PEOPLE v. Hester
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-03-28· cited 222×
• People v. Housby
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-03-31· cited 179×
• People v. Higgins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-01-14· cited 105×
• People v. Unger
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-04-05· cited 93×
• People v. Turner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1973-11-30· cited 73×
• The PEOPLE v. Harper
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-01-19· cited 54×
• People v. Alexander
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-11-18· cited 54×
• The PEOPLE v. Jackson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-11-22· cited 51×
• People v. Stone
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-06-07· cited 45×
• People v. Clark
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1968-12-10· cited 37×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-02-17· cited 29×
• People v. Fox
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-05-11· cited 24×
• People v. Spiezio
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-04-13· cited 23×
• People v. Parker
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-02-19· cited 20×
• People v. Avery
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-09-17· cited 17×
• People v. Bailey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-09-10· cited 17×
• People v. Cooper
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-06-25· cited 17×
• People v. Gugliotta
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-02-15· cited 15×
• People v. Ulatowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-10-07· cited 12×