People v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court may consider defendant’s criminal history as a “reason[ ] to impose a more severe sentence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Thomas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-03-21· cited 184×
• People v. Barnwell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-12-23· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• White v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-01-15· cited 1,508×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• People v. Manion
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-09-20· cited 432×
• County of Du Page v. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Inc.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-09-20· cited 174×
• People v. Robinson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-03-16· cited 149×
• People v. Felella
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 128×
• John Wayne Gacy v. George Welborn, Warden, Menard Correctional Center, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-05-07· cited 121×
• Henry v. St. John's Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-11-30· cited 97×
• Maloney v. Bower
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-09-17· cited 72×
• People v. Lewis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-07-31· cited 65×
• People v. Young
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-11-30· cited 57×
• People v. Emrich
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-10-01· cited 49×
• Allerd Sharlow v. Thomas R. Israel and Attorney General of Wisconsin
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-07-22· cited 29×
• People v. Nicholls
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-01-27· cited 25×
• People v. Berry
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-06-29· cited 17×
• Morrow v. Dixon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-09-20· cited 13×
• People v. Ward
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-04-06· cited 9×
• The People v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-11-30· cited 9×