People v. Spinelli

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecuting government’s failure to file an appel-lee’s brief resulted in pro forma reversal
• government’s failure to file an appellee’s brief resulted in pro forma reversal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Townsend
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-08-30· cited 46×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-11-28· cited 26×
• People v. Felton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-06-14· cited 18×
• Goldberg v. Goldberg
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-07-17· cited 14×
• People v. Keeney
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1968-06-19· cited 12×
• Shinn v. County Board of School Trustees
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-12-30· cited 12×
• Drabicki v. City of Ridgeland
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-06-25· cited 11×
• People Ex Rel. Pullman Bank & Trust Co. v. Fitzgerald
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-08-08· cited 10×
• Lobo v. City of Ridgeland
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-05-28· cited 9×
• White v. White
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2025-10-31· cited 9×
• First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-04-15· cited 7×
• People v. McCoy
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1968-11-12· cited 6×
• Altman v. Altman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-09-11· cited 6×
• Kelleher v. Kelleher
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-07-24· cited 4×
• People v. French
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-02-05· cited 4×
• People v. Logan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-02-07· cited 4×
• Niedermeyer v. Streamwood Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-03-02· cited 4×
• People v. Logan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-03-28· cited 4×
• Georges v. Mallare
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-03-27· cited 3×
• People v. Dossett
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-10-17· cited 3×