The People v. De Simone

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that defense counsel’s lack of knowledge of basic rules of criminal procedure and evidence precluding him from presenting an adequate defense denied defendant effective representation
• reversal mandated even where prosecution case is “conclusive,” but representation “is of such low caliber as to amount to no representation at all”

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Cited by

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

• People v. Caballero
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-01-18· cited 310×
• The People v. Burson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1957-05-23· cited 234×
• People v. McCauley
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-12-22· cited 188×
• The PEOPLE v. Pride
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-01-23· cited 124×
• United States Ex Rel. Ralph Maselli v. Frederick G. Reincke, Warden
  Second Circuit· 1967-08-23· cited 94×
• The People v. Somerville
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1969-01-29· cited 94×
• People v. Bennett
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-02-10· cited 93×
• The People v. Washington
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-09-24· cited 92×
• The PEOPLE v. Davis
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-03-28· cited 73×
• The People v. Olmstead
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1965-03-18· cited 62×
• People v. Flores
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-10-19· cited 57×
• The PEOPLE v. Steenbergen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1964-11-24· cited 54×
• People v. Owens
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-04-04· cited 50×
• The People v. Richardson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-09-24· cited 48×
• People v. Nordstrom
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1966-07-13· cited 43×
• People v. Sims
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-06-08· cited 41×
• People v. Redmond
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1972-01-28· cited 37×
• The People v. Bliss
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1970-01-28· cited 37×
• The People v. Green
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-01-19· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Dunker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-07-02· cited 29×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Betts v. Brady
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-01· cited 1,154×
• People v. Morris
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1954-09-23· cited 195×
• Diggs v. Welch
  D.C. Circuit· 1945-02-26· cited 189×
• People v. Jenko
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1951-11-27· cited 122×
• United States Ex Rel. Feeley v. Ragen
  Seventh Circuit· 1948-03-01· cited 104×
• The People v. Wilson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1948-05-20· cited 76×
• People v. Stephens
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-05-20· cited 55×
• Sahlinger v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1882-03-28· cited 48×
• People v. Cleminson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1911-04-19· cited 44×
• People v. Clark
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-11-23· cited 43×
• People v. Gougas
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1951-11-27· cited 41×
• People v. Skeoch
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1951-01-18· cited 32×
• People v. Smith
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-09-23· cited 31×
• People v. Schulman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1921-10-22· cited 20×
• United States Ex Rel. Hall v. Ragen
  N.D. Illinois· 1945-03-23· cited 12×
• People v. Connors
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1952-11-20· cited 11×

Other cases named The People v. De Simone

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• The PEOPLE v. De Simone
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-03-25· cited 13×
• The People v. De Simone
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 9×