105 Ill. 2d 342 - People v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans (2004)
103 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 Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Circumstantial evidence is the proof of facts or circumstances which give rise to a reasonable inference of other facts which tend to show the guilt or innocence of [(the) (a)] defendant. Circumstantial evidence should be considered by you together with all the other evidence in the case in arriving at your verdict. You should not find the defendant guilty unless the facts or circumstances proved exclude every reasonable theory of innocence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘This court has repeatedly held that, for testimony to qualify as a spontaneous declaration and be admissible regardless of declarant’s presence at trial, three elements' must be present: “(1) an occurrence sufficiently startling to produce a spontaneous and unreflecting statement; (2) absence of time to fabricate; and (3) the statement must relate to the circumstances of the occurrence.” (People v. Poland (1961), 22 Ill. 2d 175, 181 .) As this court noted in Poland, “The pertinent point is whether there was a lack of sufficient time to allow an opportunity for reflection and invention.” ( 22 Ill. 2d 175, 181 .)’ ( 73 Ill. 2d 192, 199 .)” 105 Ill. 2d 342, 354 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits murder if, in performing the acts which cause the death: * * * (2) He knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual or another.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Petrusel
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.