92 Ill. App. 2d 6 - People v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2009
18 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Direct proof of guilty knowledge and the intent to deprive the owner from again possessing goods stolen from him is not necessary. Elements of the crime may be inferred from all facts and circumstances including possession of the stolen property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““One good count in an indictment will sustain a general finding of guilty if the evidence is sufficient to prove the crime charged in that count.””
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.