People v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming attempt murder conviction where the defendant used his fists “extensively” to beat the victim and left her severely beaten and bloody body lying on the ground in a store
• the use of bare hands can be considered a deadly weapon so as to support a finding of specific intent to kill
• the victim was hospitalized for 22 days, suffered post-traumatic amnesia, required surgery, and suffered from ataxia, or problems with her balance, as a result of the head trauma
• “when a gun is used, even if a defendant fires shots in the general direction of the victim, but those shots do not hit the victim, we permit an inference of intent to kill”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Viramontes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-02-22· cited 35×
• People v. Maggette
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-01-26· cited 20×
• People v. Reynolds
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-03-11· cited 14×
• People ex rel. City of Chicago v. Le Mirage, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-01-23· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Prado
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-10-17· cited 2×
• People v. Reynolds
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-05-20· cited 1×
• Lavin v. Rednour
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-01-20

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• People v. Terrell
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-10-25· cited 209×
• People v. Harris
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-05-26· cited 172×
• People v. Bole
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1993-04-15· cited 141×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-09-01· cited 55×
• People v. Bailey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-04-25· cited 48×
• People v. Thomas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-07-31· cited 46×
• People v. Garrett
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-06-28· cited 31×
• People v. Giles
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-05-25· cited 27×
• People v. Byrd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-12-06· cited 26×
• People v. Solis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-06-13· cited 25×
• Hernandez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-29· cited 24×
• People v. Doss
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-09-10· cited 16×
• People v. Jeter
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-05-14· cited 14×
• Hume v. Limbach
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1991-08-14· cited 2×