231 Ill. App. 3d 550 - People v. Stuckey’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 271 Ill. App. 3d 97 - People v. Medrano (1995), 257 Ill. App. 3d 670 - People v. Wilson (1993)
38 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Jones v. United States · 128 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Young
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“of cocaine. At this point, the circumstances were sufficient to lead a reasonable person to believe that defendant committed a crime. Accordingly, we find that the police had probable cause to arrest defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, 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.” (Emphasis in original.) (Jackson v. Virginia (1979), 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 61 L. Ed. 2d 560, 573 , 99 S. Ct. 2781, 2789 .) Murder is the unlawful killing of another person with malice aforethought. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, par. 9 — 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause to arrest exists where the police have knowledge of facts which would lead a reasonable person to believe that a crime has been committed by the person arrested.”
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.