People v. Armstrong

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that an Apprendi violation prevented the sentence from being extended beyond the statutory limit for first degree murder of 60 years
• Challenges to a trial court’s statutory authority to impose a particular sentence are not subject to waiver
• defendant's sentence \cannot be extended beyond the statutory limitations of 60 years in the instant case\
• sentence enhancement based on “wanton cruelty” rather than untruthful trial testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Lopez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2008-06-19· cited 184×
• People v. Braggs
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-04-15· cited 173×
• McLinden v. Coco
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-03-20· cited 39×
• People v. Clifton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-04-24· cited 39×
• People v. Lee
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-12-07· cited 35×
• People v. Vida
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-06-22· cited 34×
• People v. Lucas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-03-21· cited 20×
• People v. Callahan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-10-18· cited 14×
• People v. Pugh
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-09-04· cited 8×
• People v. Townsell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-01-08· cited 5×
• People v. Reynolds
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-02-08· cited 4×
• State of Maine v. Hillary Hemminger
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-06-14· cited 2×
• People v. Townsell Modification of February 27, 2002, opinion upon denial of rehearing
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-03-28· cited 1×
• People v. Braggs Modified on Denial of Rehearing - replaces opinion filed 12/18/03
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-04-15

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Almendarez-Torres v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-24· cited 12,622×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Brown v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-26· cited 4,589×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• Sullivan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 3,512×
• United States v. Gaudin
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-19· cited 2,553×
• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-24· cited 2,200×
• McMillan v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 1,908×
• United States v. Dunnigan
  Supreme Court· 1993-02-23· cited 1,786×
• In re G.O.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-03-23· cited 289×
• People v. Bryant
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-05-17· cited 237×
• People v. Melock
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-07-30· cited 219×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 139×
• People v. Lewis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-03-24· cited 70×
• People v. Morris
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-05-14· cited 65×
• People v. Zeisler
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-10-20· cited 61×
• The PEOPLE v. Parren
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-05-25· cited 37×
• People v. Nunn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-06-29· cited 32×