33 Ill. App. 3d 12 - People v. Witherspoon’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 47 Ill. App. 3d 529 - People v. Gardner (1977), 85 Ill. App. 3d 59 - People v. Sakalas (1980)
100 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 Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · Johnson v. United States · Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · 53 Ill. 2d 62 - People v. Prim
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The credibility of an identification does not rest upon the type of facial description or other physical features which the complaining witness is able to relate. (People v. McCall [(1963)], 29 Ill. 2d 292, 295 , 194 N.E.2d 222 .) It depends rather upon whether the witness had a full and adequate opportunity to observe the defendant. (See People v. Cattlett [(1971)], 48 Ill. 2d 56, 63 , 268 N.E.2d 378 , and People v. Brown [(1973)], 14 Ill. App. 3d 242, 245 , 302 N.E.2d 161 .) A mere discrepancy in description, or an omission to note facial or other physical features, is not by itself sufficient to create a reasonable doubt of guilt.” People v. Witherspoon (1975), 33 Ill. App. 3d 12, 19-20 , 337 N.E.2d 454, 460 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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