People v. O'NEAL

How courts have described this case

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

• contraband may be considered under the defendant’s immediate control if it is within his easy reach
• contraband may be considered under the defendant's immediate control if it is within his easy reach
• contraband “sufficiently accessible” to a defendant for purposes of control if it is within “easy reach”
• contraband is “sufficiently accessible” for the purposes of control if it is “within [the defendant’s] 12 No. 1-19-0953 easy reach”
• “Contraband will be considered to be sufficiently accessible to a defendant if it is within his easy reach and that of other persons who may be present.”
• rational to infer control of item within defendant’s reach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Albano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-07-25· cited 100×
• People v. Ingram
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-04-21· cited 54×
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-07-31· cited 25×
• People v. Janis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-12-27· cited 19×
• People v. Givens
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-03-11· cited 18×
• People v. Welch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-09-26· cited 15×
• People v. Gore
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-06-21· cited 14×
• People v. Hammer
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-05-13· cited 6×
• People v. Curry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-03-31· cited 4×
• People v. Woodhouse
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2026-03-31· cited 3×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. MacK
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1957-09-20· cited 150×
• The PEOPLE v. Embry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-10-31· cited 82×
• The PEOPLE v. McKnight
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-05-29· cited 39×
• People v. Kissinger
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-03-18· cited 17×
• People v. Cogwell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-10-12· cited 14×
• People v. Bedford
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1966-12-16· cited 10×
• People v. Bell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-10-12· cited 9×