People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction for gun possession where the defendant threw the gun into a trash can
• a person in possession of a firearm must have a FOID card on his person because mere ownership of a FOID card by a person in possession of a firearm is insufficient to comply with the statute
• a person in possession of a firearm must have a FOID card on his person because mere ownership of a FOID card by a person in possession of a firearm is insufficient to comply with the statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Thomas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-08-12· cited 35×
• People v. Henderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-08-09· cited 25×
• People v. Bloxton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-12-21· cited 19×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-05-02· cited 18×
• People v. Welch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2025-09-26· cited 15×
• People v. Grant
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-02-05· cited 12×
• People v. Martinez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-12-20· cited 9×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-03-22· cited 2×
• People v. Doneski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1997-04-21

Cites

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

• People v. Pintos
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-12-21· cited 211×
• People v. Wilson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-04-18· cited 79×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-03-31· cited 78×
• People v. Locascio
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-05-24· cited 42×
• People v. McBrien
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-06-03· cited 34×
• People v. Grant
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-05-29· cited 34×
• People v. Flores
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-07-29· cited 32×
• People v. Trask
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-04-04· cited 32×
• People v. Edwards
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-07-22· cited 30×
• People v. Mourecek
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-01-29· cited 26×
• People v. Delk
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-05-26· cited 23×
• People v. Nightengale
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-04-13· cited 21×
• People v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-07-10· cited 21×
• People v. Costello
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-01-15· cited 18×
• People v. Thompson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-06-26· cited 15×
• People v. Chmilenko
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-12-28· cited 14×
• People v. Preston
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-07-07· cited 13×
• People v. Sherman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-10-29· cited 13×
• People v. Sims
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-16· cited 9×
• People v. Hughes
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-04-06· cited 8×