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56 Ill. 2d 306 - People v. Benedik’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

116
cited by 116 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited

116 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 84 Ill. 2d 350 - People v. Jackson (1981), 129 Ill. 2d 123 - People v. Harris (1989)

116 state decisions

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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 Furman v. Georgia · Moore v. Illinois · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · 53 Ill. 2d 550 - People v. Zuniga · 43 Ill. 2d 74 - The PEOPLE v. Lewellen

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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The circumstantial evidence against the defendant was substantial. If the jury disbelieved his testimony, as they were entitled to do, they could reasonably have reached the conclusion that the physical evidence, the nature of the wounds on Kresmery's body, the defendant's attempt to hide the bodies and destroy other evidence, his flight and his apparent motive established his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not necessary that the jury disregard the inferences which naturally flow from this evidence, nor is the trier of fact `required to search out a series of potential explanations compatible with innocence, and elevate them to the status of a reasonable doubt'." 56 Ill.2d 306, 309 .”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 71 Ill. App. 3d 504 - People v. Hudson · 17 Ill. App. 3d 986 - People v. Lopes

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.