People v. Davis

How courts have described this case

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

• finding circumstantial evidence of defendant’s identity insufficient when the State “produced no evidence of any kind that placed [the defendant] in, at or near the *** home when [the victim] was killed”
• “A person’s liberty is an endowment that is too valuable to be lost on speculation of wrongdoing.”
• “A person’s liberty is an endowment that is too valuable to be lost on speculation of wrongdoing.”
• evidence was insufficient to convict defendant of murder even though defendant was the owner and last known possessor of the gun used in the fatal shooting
• evidence was insufficient to convict defendant of murder even though defendant was the owner and last known possessor of the gun used in the fatal shooting
• “If an alleged inference does not have a chain of factual evidentiary antecedents, then within the purview of the law it is not a reasonable inference but is instead mere speculation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Saxon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-06-26· cited 76×
• People v. Toney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-01-31· cited 52×
• People v. HOMMERSON
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-03-25· cited 43×
• In re Jovan A.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-04-17· cited 30×
• People v. Rush
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-01-16· cited 29×
• People v. Sanchez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-06-21· cited 28×
• People v. Turner
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-09-12· cited 25×
• People v. Welch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-09-26· cited 15×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-11-22· cited 12×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-05-19· cited 11×
• People v. Toney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-11-22· cited 8×
• People v. Mayberry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-09-08· cited 6×
• People v. Mayberry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-04-08· cited 1×
• Shawn Michael Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-02-13
• People v. Jefferies
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-02-18
• People v. Ayala
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-02-21

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Young
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 643×
• People v. Campbell
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-01-30· cited 384×
• People v. Bryant
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-10-17· cited 213×
• In Re Marriage of Davis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-05-14· cited 56×
• People v. Dowaliby
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-10-30· cited 22×
• People v. Linscott
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-12-01· cited 20×
• People v. Evans
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-03-09· cited 15×
• People v. Bell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-01-30· cited 10×
• Stacke v. Bates
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-03· cited 5×