People v. Witherspoon

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a trial court’s finding under abuse of discretion standard of review does not necessarily mean an opposite finding would be an abuse of discretion
• intent may be proven through circumstantial evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. Koe
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-09-21· cited 46×
• People v. Daniels
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2016-08-29· cited 19×
• People v. Alvarez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2016-09-14· cited 12×
• People v. Dorsey
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-01-19· cited 9×
• People v. Harris
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2023-09-28· cited 8×
• People v. Ramirez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2015-06-09· cited 7×
• People v. Djurdjulov
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2017-12-18· cited 4×
• People v. Casler
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-08-26· cited 4×
• People v. Langston
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2024-05-08· cited 2×
• People v. Robards
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2018-04-20

Cites

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

• People v. King
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1977-05-20· cited 1,292×
• People v. Nicholls
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-03-23· cited 479×
• People v. Crespo
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2003-03-31· cited 340×
• United States v. Resendiz-Ponce
  Supreme Court· 2007-01-09· cited 302×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-01-18· cited 301×
• People v. Ward
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2005-05-19· cited 239×
• People v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2002-01-25· cited 212×
• People v. Curry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-09-18· cited 197×
• People v. Whitney
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-10-21· cited 182×
• People v. Johnson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-06-25· cited 156×
• Sullivan v. Town of Brookline
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-11-14· cited 147×
• People v. Williams
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1995-03-23· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Donovan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1985-05-28· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Levia
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-02-23· cited 90×
• People v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-04-01· cited 55×
• People v. Primm
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-12-29· cited 54×
• People v. Ruiz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2000-03-14· cited 42×
• People v. Milton
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1999-12-22· cited 35×
• People v. T.G.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-12-19· cited 35×
• People v. Davis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-10-26· cited 31×