People v. Wicks

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, in addition to some evidence of excessive force, “there must be some evidence that the defendant acted out of fear for his safety in order to justify a self-defense instruction in these circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Sims
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-06-14· cited 39×
• People v. Ammons
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-09-16· cited 18×
• People v. Haynes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-03-31· cited 14×
• People v. Haynes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-03-30· cited 13×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-08-21· cited 5×
• Volland-Golden ex rel. Estate of Volland v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-02-27· cited 4×
• People v. Vesey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-06-26· cited 2×
• People v. Davis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2026-05-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Rodriguez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-01-18· cited 301×
• People v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-01-30· cited 225×
• People v. Garcia
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 70×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-09-27· cited 43×
• People v. Floyd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-03-20· cited 33×
• People v. Bailey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-04· cited 28×
• People v. Moshier
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-04-20· cited 26×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-12-12· cited 22×