102 Ill. 2d 485 - People v. Ash’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 127 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Slim (1989), 165 Ill. 2d 305 - People v. Lewis (1995)
85 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Holloway v. Arkansas · 98 Ill. 2d 294 - People v. Bartall · 88 Ill. 2d 225 - People v. Baynes · 40 Ill. 2d 109 - The People v. Stoval · 60 Ill. 2d 300 - People v. Jones
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[I]t is our duty, where a verdict of guilty is returned by a jury * * * not only to carefully consider the evidence but to reverse the judgment if the evidence is not sufficient to remove all reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt and is not sufficient to create an abiding conviction that he is guilty of the crime charged.' ( People v. Bartall (1983), 98 Ill.2d 294, 305-06 .) * * * The State argues that the [appellate] court * * * erroneously substituted its judgment in place of the trier of fact in its appraisal of [Ash's] identification * * *. * * * A conviction cannot be deemed to be sustained beyond reasonable doubt by the evidence if identification of the accused was vague and doubtful. ( People v. Gardner (1966), 35 Ill.2d 564, 571 ; People v. Cullotta (1965), 32 Ill.2d 502, 504 ; People v. Hister (1974), 20 Ill. App.3d 933, 937 .) [The] identification of Ash was insufficient to support a conclusion that Ash was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.