167 Ill. 2d 397 - People v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 237 Ill. 2d 311 - People v. Givens (2010), 214 Ill. 2d 318 - People v. Bush (2005)
218 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 Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · Payton v. New York · Florida v. Bostick · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`This issue involves the examination of the nature and quantity of circumstantial evidence necessary to support an inference of intent to deliver. In controlled substances prosecutions, many different factors are probative of intent to deliver. Such factors include whether the quantity of controlled substance in defendant's possession is too large to be viewed as being for personal consumption, the high purity of the drug confiscated, the possession of weapons, the possession of large amounts of cash, the possession of police scanners, beepers or cellular telephones, the possession of drug paraphernalia, and the manner in which the substance is packaged. [Citation.] The quantity of controlled substance alone can be sufficient to prove an intent to deliver. This is the case only where the amount of controlled substance could not reasonably be viewed as designed for personal consumption.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The record reveals that the cocaine recovered in this case was contained in 36 individual packets and the PCP was contained in four packets along with four empty plastic bags. *** [T]he police had received several anonymous phone calls complaining of drug sales at the apartment building at 107 North Menard. *** [Approximately a dozen people came 'in and out of the doorway at 107 North Menard’ over a 20-minute time period. *** Considering the fashion in which the controlled substances possessed by the defendant were packaged, the anonymous tips, and amount of late-night traffic at 107 North Menard, the appellate court erroneously reversed the defendant’s conviction for possession with intent to deliver. Forty individual parcels, containing two different types of narcotics, and the other circumstantial evidence in this case were sufficient to support the jury’s verdict.” Robinson, 167 Ill. 2d at 413-14 , 657 N.E.2d at 1029 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n light of the numerous types of controlled substances and the infinite number of potential factual scenarios in these cases, there is no hard and fast rule to be applied in every case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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