174 Ill. 2d 427 - People v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 214 Ill. 2d 318 - People v. Bush (2005), 322 Ill. App. 3d 607 - People v. Little (2001)
76 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 96 Ill. App. 3d 880 - People v. Ayala · 169 Ill. App. 3d 901 - People v. Hill · 146 Ill. App. 3d 888 - People v. Kaludis · 220 Ill. App. 3d 488 - People v. Young · 94 Ill. App. 3d 130 - People v. Games
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant is charged with possession of a specific amount of an illegal drug with intent to deliver and there is a lesser included offense of possession of a smaller amount, then the weight of the seized drug is an essential element of the crime and must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"What inference can be drawn concerning the composition of the three packets not tested? Without more, the answer is none at all. And in this case, the five packets containing loose substances cannot be equated with identically marked and stamped tablets, pills, or capsules. While it is not difficult to speculate, as did the trial judge, that the remaining three packets may have contained cocaine, such a finding must be based on evidence and not upon guess, speculation, or conjecture. Quite simply, the chemist failed to test a sufficient number of packets to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant possessed one gram or more of cocaine." Jones, 174 Ill.2d at 430 , 221 Ill.Dec. 192 , 675 N.E.2d 99 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'random testing is permissible when the seized samples are sufficiently homogenous so that one may infer beyond a reasonable doubt that the untested samples contain the same substance as those that are conclusively tested.'”
3 later decisions 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.