367 Ill. App. 3d 182 - People v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 384 Ill. App. 3d 1039 - People v. Beasley (2008), 395 Ill. App. 3d 660 - People v. Ross (2009)
43 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 47 Ill. 2d 510 - The People v. Montgomery · 209 Ill. 2d 194 - People v. Evans · 92 Ill. 2d 545 - People v. Weaver · 211 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Phelps · 215 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Ward
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When reviewing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case, the relevant inquiry is whether, when 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.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trier of fact has the responsibility to determine the credibility of witnesses and the weight given to their testimony, to resolve conflicts in the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from that evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] reviewing court will not reverse a criminal conviction unless the evidence is so unreasonable, improbable[,] or unsatisfactory as to create a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Allen
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.