52 Ill. App. 3d 81 - People v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 221 - People v. Gacho (1988), 124 Ill. App. 3d 516 - People v. Hunter (1984)
31 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 Bruton v. United States · 54 Ill. 2d 280 - People v. Pickett · 49 Ill. 2d 416 - The PEOPLE v. Canaday · 46 Ill. 2d 177 - The People v. Hudson · 52 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Canale
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Circumstantial evidence is the proof of facts or circumstances which give rise to a reasonable inference of other facts which tend to show the guilt or innocence of the defendant. Circumstantial evidence should be considered by you together with all the other evidence in the case in arriving at your verdict.””
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.