People v. Freedman

How courts have described this case

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

• “While voluntary intoxication affords no excuse for crime, an offense which is by law made to depend upon the state or condition of the mind of the accused cannot be committed by one who is incapable of forming the specific intent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Emerson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-10-04· cited 259×
• People v. Cisewski
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 239×
• People v. Lyles
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-05-31· cited 174×
• People v. Witted
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-11-20· cited 107×
• People v. Stock
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-03-20· cited 105×
• The PEOPLE v. Berry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-02-11· cited 91×
• People v. Weatherspoon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-08-04· cited 86×
• People v. Hope
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 84×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-03-31· cited 54×
• The People v. Reynolds
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-03-22· cited 53×
• State v. Perry
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1974-05-07· cited 46×
• The PEOPLE v. Soznowski
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1961-09-22· cited 41×
• People v. Castillo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-07-09· cited 35×
• People v. Tannahill
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-02-19· cited 35×
• People v. Martin
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-06-11· cited 35×
• People v. Gilyard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-04-27· cited 31×
• People v. Goolsby
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-01-24· cited 30×
• The People v. Bernette
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-03-24· cited 30×
• People v. Miller
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-11-12· cited 30×
• People v. Pearson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-09-20· cited 26×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. Ardelean
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1938-02-17· cited 31×
• The People v. Savage
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1934-12-18· cited 16×

Other cases named People v. Freedman

8 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Freedman
  California Court of Appeal· 1952-06-13· cited 13×
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-04-27· cited 10×
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1926-03-15
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1928-03-15
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1972-12-26
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1986-01-21
• People v. Freedman
  City of New York Municipal Court· 1976-07-15
• People v. Freedman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1932-02-23