People v. Watts

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a provision in the Home Repair Fraud Act was unconstitutional because it created a mandatory presumption that, if certain facts existed, then a contractor made promises with the intent not to perform the work or with knowledge that the work would not be performed
• rebuttable presumption that shifts burden of production onto defendant on element of offense violates due process
• and federal cases discussed therein
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Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Greco
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-05-08· cited 151×
• People v. Woodrum
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2006-10-05· cited 123×
• People v. Jordan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2006-01-20· cited 102×
• People v. Pomykala
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-01-24· cited 97×
• People v. Alexander
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-05-22· cited 64×
• People v. Casillas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2000-11-16· cited 56×
• People v. Funches
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2004-10-07· cited 52×
• People v. Beltran
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-02-22· cited 44×
• People v. Bowman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-04-20· cited 38×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-11-18· cited 33×
• People v. Quinones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-11-10· cited 32×
• People v. Taylor
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-12-03· cited 19×
• People v. Pomykala
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-12-13· cited 16×
• People v. Cazacu
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-05-10· cited 15×
• People v. Henderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-03-29· cited 9×
• People v. Reimer
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-03-30· cited 9×
• People v. Nelson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2021-02-04· cited 9×
• People v. Singmouangthong
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-10-17· cited 8×
• People v. Velez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-03-22· cited 8×
• People v. Peshak
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2002-09-20· cited 7×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co.
  Supreme Court· 1977-04-04· cited 1,460×
• United States v. United States Gypsum Co.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 1,267×
• Tot v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-07· cited 998×
• Yates v. Evatt
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 932×
• Carella v. California
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 686×
• People v. Housby
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-03-31· cited 179×
• People v. Warren
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-09-26· cited 160×
• State v. Johnson
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-12-15· cited 155×
• People v. Scott
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-04-16· cited 154×
• James E. Davis v. Harry L. Allsbrooks, Warden of the Northhampton Co. Prison State of North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-11-27· cited 143×
• Fiorito v. Jones
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-03-28· cited 123×
• People v. Hester
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-09-20· cited 95×
• People v. Ziltz
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-10-04· cited 87×
• People v. Watts
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-06-24· cited 3×