217 Ill. App. 3d 675 - People v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2025
24 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 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 66 Ill. 2d 551 - People v. King · 123 Ill. 2d 322 - People v. Richardson · 137 Ill. App. 3d 171 - People v. Morrison · 131 Ill. 2d 91 - People v. Hester
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]rior violent acts against a victim, remote in time from the sexual molestation charged, are insufficient to support that element of the offense of aggravated criminal sexual assault that the defendant's acts threatened or endangered a victim's life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here was no evidence that the victim sustained any type of physical injury, not even a bruise, from the defendant's pushing her onto the bed at the time of his sexual violation of her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it must be overt acts by the defendant * * * which threaten or endanger a victim's life, and that the life-threatening acts must occur during the commission of the offense.”
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.