People v. Mitchell

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the defendant’s conviction because, among other things, the trial court had failed to tender the jury a section 115 — 10(c) instruction
• statements from “youthful victims become more credible, more reliable, and better understandable when supported by the testimony of adults corroborating them”
• error to consider child’s out-of-court statements at trial absent reliability hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-10-12· cited 413×
• People v. Nash
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-10-18· cited 87×
• People v. Hudson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-03-02· cited 77×
• People v. Boling
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-05-15· cited 68×
• People v. Sullivan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-06-19· cited 57×
• Trent v. Winningham
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-06-20· cited 44×
• People v. Fontana
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-10-29· cited 43×
• Clark v. Han
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-03-31· cited 42×
• People v. Cookson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-12-02· cited 36×
• People v. Weiss
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-05-06· cited 35×
• People v. Guajardo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-28· cited 28×
• People v. Washington
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-11-15· cited 26×
• People v. Evans
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-03-24· cited 20×
• People v. Westpfahl
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-03-23· cited 18×
• People v. Lann
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-04-19· cited 17×
• Lacny v. POLICE BD. OF CITY OF CHICAGO
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-08-04· cited 15×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-04-09· cited 15×
• People v. Pitts
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-09-30· cited 15×
• People v. Burgund
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-01-13· cited 14×
• People v. Simmons
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-01-05· cited 13×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• People v. Young
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 643×
• People v. Hope
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-05-30· cited 84×
• People v. Hope
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-03-12· cited 47×
• People v. Branch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-07-23· cited 30×
• The PEOPLE v. Dixon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 18×
• People v. Mitchell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-05-12· cited 14×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-12-09· cited 8×