People v. Safford

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that admission of the fingerprint evidence was not harmless
• “witnesses have little chance of being found credible when [forensic] evidence points to the defendant being present at the scene of the crime”
• latent print examiner’s testimony should not have been admitted where he failed to sufficiently explain how he found “a match”

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Cited by

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

• People v. Simmons
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-01-13· cited 50×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-09-28· cited 43×
• People v. Wright
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-03-30· cited 39×
• People v. Harmon
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-03-17· cited 38×
• People v. Simpson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-05-07· cited 35×
• People v. Garcia
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-11-30· cited 33×
• People v. McNeal
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-11-24· cited 30×
• People v. Negron
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-10-04· cited 24×
• People v. Wilson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-12-18· cited 23×
• People v. Luna
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-04-25· cited 22×
• People v. Fountain
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2016-11-17· cited 21×
• People v. McNeal
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-02-09· cited 20×
• Sharbono v. Hilborn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-07-18· cited 17×
• People v. Mitchell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-08-05· cited 15×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-08-07· cited 10×
• Baley v. Federal Signal Corporation
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-09-13· cited 6×
• People v. Burhans
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2016-09-30· cited 5×
• People v. Cline
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-10-30· cited 5×
• People v. Robinson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2018-08-24· cited 4×
• Molitor v. BNSF Ry. Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-12-20· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Koon v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 3,761×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• People v. Prim
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-10-02· cited 576×
• People v. Campbell
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-01-30· cited 384×
• People v. Chapman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-12-01· cited 260×
• People v. Stechly
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2007-04-19· cited 217×
• People v. MacK
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-04-20· cited 135×
• People v. Anderson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-06-20· cited 133×
• People v. Bynum
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-02-04· cited 99×
• Hiscott v. Peters
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-08-16· cited 74×
• Soto v. Gaytan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-04-25· cited 66×
• People v. Brown
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-01-25· cited 40×
• People v. Hunley
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-05-01· cited 32×
• People v. Reno
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-09-26· cited 25×
• People v. Nichols
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-09-12· cited 24×
• Donnellan v. First Student, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-06-19· cited 23×
• People v. Garth
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2004-09-30· cited 18×
• People v. O'NEAL
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-12-18· cited 13×

Other cases named People v. Safford

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• People v. Safford
  New York Supreme Court· 1847-10-15· cited 22×
• People v. Safford
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-06-11· cited 10×
• People v. Safford
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-09-30· cited 7×
• People v. Safford
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2025-02-05