361 Ill. App. 3d 430 - People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2026
7 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 · 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans · 214 Ill. 2d 455 - People v. Woods · 257 Ill. App. 3d 502 - People v. Bynum
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen no positive evidence of tampering or other contamination exists, the proponent of the evidence can replace a missing link, created when one or more custodians of the evidence do not testify, with evidence (1) that the evidence left the hands of one testifying custodian in a sealed envelope or other container and arrived in the hands of the next testifying custodian still in a sealed container, and (2) that the identifying number or code on the container sent out matches that on the container received.” People v. Johnson, 361 Ill. App. 3d 430, 441-42 (2005).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A]bsent positive evidence of a compromising event, such an event’s existence is nothing more than a reasonable hypothesis. The mere existence of a reasonable hypothesis consistent with a defendant’s innocence is not enough to necessarily create a reasonable doubt of his or her guilt. [Citation.] Thus, to create a reasonable doubt, a flaw in a foundation based on chain of custody must do more than provide an opportunity for speculation about events in which the integrity of evidence could possibly have been compromised.” Johnson, 361 Ill. App. 3d at 437 .”
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.