352 Ill. App. 3d 1062 - People v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 255 - People v. Ross (2008), 368 Ill. App. 3d 963 - People v. Robinson (2006)
37 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 Jackson v. Virginia · 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · Lee v. Illinois · 67 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Manion
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.
““[0]ur courts have defined the term by dividing objects alleged to be ‘dangerous weapons’ into four categories. [Citation.] The first category consists of objects that are dangerous per se, such as knives and loaded guns. [Citation.] The second category consists of objects that are never dangerous weapons, such as a four-inch plastic toy gun. [Citation.] The third category consists of objects that are not necessarily dangerous weapons but can be used as such, for instance, an unloaded gun or a toy gun made of heavy material, which are incapable of shooting bullets but can be used as a bludgeon [citation] or, as another example, fingernail clippers with a sharpened file [citation]. The fourth category consists of objects that are not necessarily dangerous but were actually used in a dangerous manner in the course of the robbery.” Thorne, 352 lb. App. 3d at 1070-71.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In all the cases that have found guns that are incapable of firing bullets to be dangerous weapons under the armed robbery statute, there was either evidence (1) that the gun was actually used in a dangerous manner, or (2) that the character of the weapon was such that it could conceivably be used as a bludgeon. [Citations.] In every case finding that an unloaded gun could have been used as a bludgeon and, therefore, could be considered a dangerous weapon, there was evidence presented as to the physical characteristics (weight or metallic nature) of the weapon. Here, the State failed to present such evidence.” Thorne, 352 Ill. App. 3d at 1072-73 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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