374 Ill. App. 3d 680 - People v. Tabb’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 401 Ill. App. 3d 758 - People v. Roberson (2010), People v. Irvine (2008)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Davis v. Alaska · California v. Green
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nless the defendant can show his or her inquiry is not based on a remote or uncertain theory, a court's ruling limiting the scope of examination will be affirmed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether, 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Irvine“`This means that [we] must allow all reasonable inferences from the record in the favor of the prosecution'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Irvine
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.