People v. Toolate

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant's presence near a building next to which a crowbar and screwdriver were found was not sufficient to constitute a substantial step even if defendant possessed the requisite intent
• explaining an offense may be proven entirely by circumstantial evidence and there is no distinction in the law as to the legal weight of circumstantial evidence versus direct evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Jiles
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-03-21· cited 61×
• United States v. Edward Davis
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-02-10· cited 45×
• People v. Lutz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-02-08· cited 24×
• People v. Peters
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-12-16· cited 6×
• People v. Rance
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-02-02· cited 5×
• People v. Murphy
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-11-15· cited 4×
• People v. Delp
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-06-17· cited 4×
• People v. Rogers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-10-15· cited 3×
• People v. Bates
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-06-26· cited 2×
• People v. Purnell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-04-10
• People v. Williams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-09-18

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• The People v. Robinson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1958-09-18· cited 87×
• People v. Ray
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-01-14· cited 16×
• People v. Matthews
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-05-07· cited 12×
• People v. Schabatka
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-04-17· cited 11×