114 Ill. 2d 340 - People v. Linscott’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2022
19 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 Brown v. Illinois · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · Darden v. Wainwright · 74 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Berland · Collins v. Illinois
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In my opinion the majority commits two errors. It applies the wrong standard of review, and it finds the evidence sufficient to sustain a conviction based on a mere suspicion of guilt. First, the majority fails to distinguish between appellate review of convictions based upon direct evidence and appellate review of convictions resting wholly upon circumstantial evidence. * * * Second, using the proper standard, the evidence adduced here does not exclude a reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the verdict will not be disturbed unless the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution”
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.