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229 Ill. 2d 255 - People v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

325
cited by 325 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

314 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 407 Ill. App. 3d 931 - People v. Ross (2011), People v. Harris (2018)

314 state decisions

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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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Penson v. Ohio · Evitts v. Lucey

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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “' "after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. O.S. v. O.S. · People v. Harris
  2. “'4.5 BB caliber gun with a three inch barrel.' " Id. The inventory sheet in the record also listed the gun consistently with the officer's testimony. Id. The victim described the gun as " 'a black, very portable gun,' " which was " 'small' and 'something you can conceal.' " Id. ¶ 75 We acknowledged in Ross that "our cases conclude that the trier of fact may make an inference of dangerousness based upon the evidence.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. Curry · People v. Wright
  3. “'4.5 BB caliber gun with a three inch barrel.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. People v. Wright · 360 Ill. Dec. 539 - People v. Washington

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.