People v. Legoo

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• “No rule of construction authorizes this court to declare that the legislature did not mean what the plain language of the statute imports, nor may we rewrite a statute to add provisions or limitations the legislature did not include.”

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Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Brooks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-09-25· cited 100×
• People v. Burge
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2021-03-18· cited 41×
• People v. Hatcher
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-03-27· cited 40×
• People v. Washington
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2023-07-18· cited 30×
• People v. Leib
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2022-06-16· cited 16×
• Kopf v. Kelly
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2024-03-21· cited 13×
• People v. Rich
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-08-12· cited 9×
• People v. Shaw-Sodaro
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-11-22· cited 8×
• People v. Hoffman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2025-06-26· cited 2×
• People v. Pruitt
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-05-14
• People v. Collins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2026-05-21

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Troxel v. Granville
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-05· cited 6,943×
• People v. Thompson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2016-01-08· cited 468×
• People v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-01-25· cited 212×
• People v. Dupree
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2019-06-27· cited 209×
• People v. Gutman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2011-12-01· cited 146×
• John Doe v. City of Lafayette, Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-07-30· cited 106×
• People v. Botruff
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-09-23· cited 84×
• People v. Minnis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2017-01-26· cited 66×
• Harvel v. City of Johnston City
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-01-23· cited 61×
• People v. Pepitone
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2018-09-11· cited 37×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2016-03-03· cited 27×
• People v. Brown
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2020-04-02· cited 23×
• People v. Pearse
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2018-01-26· cited 22×
• People v. Manning
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2019-02-05· cited 21×
• In re Elena Hernandez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2021-02-04· cited 20×
• People v. Webb
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2019-10-03· cited 14×
• People v. Legoo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-07-16· cited 1×

Other cases named People v. Legoo

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• People v. Legoo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-07-16· cited 1×