8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 40 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Everette.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People v. Everette Anchor | green | “it is a matter of law whether the defendant has met the evidentiary minimum entitling him to instructions on an affirmative defense.” | 11 |
| 2 | People v. Washington | green | “the question of whether sufficient evidence exists in the record to support the giving of a jury instruction is a question of law subject to de novo review.” | 9 |
| 3 | People v. Smith | green | “to lay an adequate foundation for expert testimony, it must be shown that the facts or data relied upon by the expert are of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in that particular field in forming opinions or inferences.” | 5 |
| 4 | People v. Negron | green | “our problem with the expert testimony here is that the expert claimed to base his opinion 'upon facts personally known to him, but he was unable to testify to those facts.' that vigorous cross-examination occurred as to the absence of details is hardly an adequate test of the su…” | 3 |
| 5 | People v. Negron | green | “the validity of safford has been questioned recently, including by this court in people v. negron, 2012 il app (1st) 101194 .” | 3 |
| 6 | People v. Wright | green | “an expert's opinion is only as valid as the basis and reason for the opinion.” | 3 |
| 7 | People v. Luna | green | “reiterated that a frye admissibility challenge is not the proper vehicle to question the conclusions an examiner reaches in a particular case.” | 3 |
| 8 | People v. Berkman | green | “no reported case since safford has held that there must be a minimum number of points of fingerprint comparison or a disclosure of a specific number of points of similarity found by the expert.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.