288 Ill. App. 3d 820 - People v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2024
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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · Illinois v. Lafayette · 71 Ill. 2d 166 - People v. Nicholls · 127 Ill. 2d 302 - People v. Slim · 142 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Steidl
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.
“"[T]he dissent ignores the totality of the circumstances testified to by Officer Dawanthat defendant `was approached by a male black subject on two separate occasions in that he upon being approached would walk a short distance in the vacant lot and retrieve from the ground an unknown item' and walked `over towards [his accomplice] and hand[ed] him this item.' Although Officer Dawan admitted under cross-examination that he could not `see the object at all,' he was able to observe [the accomplice] `exchange that item for U.S.C.' He also recovered seven individually wrapped packets of cocaine. Under those circumstances, we cannot conclude that the evidence was so improbable as to raise a reasonable doubt of defendant's guilt." Smith, 288 Ill.App.3d at 824 n. 1, 224 Ill.Dec. 98 , 681 N.E.2d 80 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the prosecution, and [we] may not substitute [our] judgment for that of the trier of fact on questions such as weight of evidence, credibility of witnesses or resolution of conflicting testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Knowledge may be shown by evidence of conduct from which it may be inferred that the defendant knew the contraband existed in the place where it was found.”
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.