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.

• noting that “[w]hen a defendant elects to explain the circumstances of what has occurred he is bound to tell a reasonable story or be judged by its improbabilities.”
• the State is permitted to introduce full proof of the crime charged in the indictment and to call life and death witnesses to identify the victim and provide evidence to establish her death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Lopez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-06-22· cited 54×
• People v. Harris
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-10-11· cited 39×
• People v. Munoz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-02-11· cited 35×
• People v. Long
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-09-29· cited 33×
• People v. Irby
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-10-22· cited 32×
• People v. Young
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-06-30· cited 30×
• Hoem v. Zia
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-31· cited 21×
• People v. Chambers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-01-21· cited 21×
• People v. Adams
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-06-29· cited 19×
• Robles v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-09-01· cited 17×
• People v. Rosemond
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-05-14· cited 17×
• People v. Novak
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-02-23· cited 15×
• People v. Gossitt
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-03-03· cited 9×
• People v. Robles
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-07-20· cited 6×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-09-29· cited 4×
• People v. Ott
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-11-20· cited 4×
• People v. Hart
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-02-08· cited 2×
• People v. Jimerson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-09-22

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• People v. Collins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-02-22· cited 2,507×
• People v. Perruquet
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-10-05· cited 1,410×
• People v. La Pointe
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1982-01-29· cited 680×
• People v. Young
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-02-22· cited 643×
• People v. Cox
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-10-17· cited 580×
• The People v. Sprinkle
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-03-25· cited 153×
• People v. Payne
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-10-21· cited 128×
• People v. Starks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-06-28· cited 101×
• People v. Marino
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1953-03-23· cited 96×
• People v. Butler
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1976-09-20· cited 92×
• The PEOPLE v. Santucci
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1962-01-23· cited 87×
• People v. Heidorn
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-05-17· cited 73×
• People v. Bergman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-01-12· cited 68×
• Mahr v. G. D. Searle & Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-03-07· cited 58×
• People v. Waud
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-11-30· cited 58×
• People v. Bost
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-02-06· cited 42×
• The People v. Finn
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-11-18· cited 41×
• People v. Velasco
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-06-08· cited 30×
• People v. Thomas
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-05-15· cited 27×