People v. Spears

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “gang affiliation is but one of the factors a judge may consider when sentencing”
• stating that “gang - 22 - affiliation is but one of the factors a judge may consider when sentencing”
• “gang affiliation is but one of the factors a judge may consider when sentencing”
• where life imprisonment imposed for murder, court affirmed extended term sentence for attempted murder
• where life imprisonment imposed for murder, court affirmed extended-term sentence for attempted murder
• victim’s testimony corroborated coconspirators’ testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Spears
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-02-28· cited 42×
• People v. Cornejo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-12-22· cited 13×
• People v. Valentine
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-08-31· cited 9×
• People v. Ervin
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-06-19· cited 8×
• People v. Bridges
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-06-13· cited 6×
• People v. Simpson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-03-18· cited 5×
• People v. Lemons
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-05-04

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• People v. Enoch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-02-11· cited 3,273×
• People v. Albanese
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-10-19· cited 1,967×
• People v. La Pointe
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-01-29· cited 680×
• People v. Young
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 643×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-11-21· cited 340×
• People v. Eddmonds
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 304×
• People v. Cisewski
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 239×
• People v. Morgan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-04-18· cited 229×
• People v. Monroe
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-04-05· cited 221×
• People v. Terry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-02-22· cited 204×
• People v. Gonzalez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-02-22· cited 174×
• People v. Lawler
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-02-22· cited 158×
• People v. Jackson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-06-27· cited 95×
• People v. Columbo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-06-24· cited 91×
• People v. Odle
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 71×
• People v. Goodman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 68×
• People v. Young
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-09-22· cited 45×
• People v. Elder
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-31· cited 32×
• People v. Hudson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-03-21· cited 30×