People v. Weeks

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing a conviction under Illinois law for involuntary manslaughter because the state failed to prove that the defendant was physically capable of providing her newborn baby with essential care
• assuming duty exists but concluding that defendant — who lost consciousness and was in pain, losing blood, and weak during childbirth — was physically incapable of performing it and thus reversing involuntary manslaughter conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Riggs
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1999-10-05· cited 29×
• People v. Miscichowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-05-14· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Pugh
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-15· cited 24×
• People v. Sanders
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-03-22· cited 19×
• People v. Doss
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-06-11· cited 17×
• People v. Bernard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-11-18· cited 10×
• People v. Szymanowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-04-28· cited 3×
• United States Ex Rel. Jones v. Washington
  N.D. Illinois· 1993-09-10· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Pugh
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2009-01-26

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People Ex Rel. Brown v. Baker
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-12-18· cited 78×
• People v. Ellis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-06-23· cited 49×
• The People v. Ryan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1956-11-26· cited 26×
• People v. Larson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-03-14· cited 24×
• People v. Einstein
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-05-07· cited 24×
• People v. Scribner
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-10· cited 23×
• People v. Parker
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-02-19· cited 20×
• People v. Schwartz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-09-20· cited 19×
• The PEOPLE v. Ibom
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-09-28· cited 19×
• People v. Brechon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-24· cited 18×
• People v. Stokes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-16· cited 17×
• People v. Rodgers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-11-05· cited 16×
• People v. York
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-02-21· cited 14×
• People v. Sumner
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-06-10· cited 14×
• The People v. Martin
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-02-01· cited 14×
• People v. Rogers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-02-02· cited 10×
• People v. Daily
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-12-17· cited 10×
• People v. Dennis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-10-20· cited 6×