15 Ill. App. 3d 230 - People v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The purpose and ultimate aim of probation is to provide a period of grace in order to aid the rehabilitation of a repentant offender, thus benefiting the general public by making the offender a useful member of society. As stated in People v. Henderson (1971), 2 Ill. App. 3d 401, 405 , 276 N.E.2d 372 . ‘The basic theory of probation is to grant defendant an opportunity of rehabihtation without incarceration; to afford the unfortunate another opportunity by extending clemency.’ Or, as the court stated in People v. Donovan (1941), 376 Ill. 602, 607 , 35 N.E.2d 54 , probation is thus an act of grace or a grant of mercy for ‘the protection of society and the reform of the defendant.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 42 Ill. App. 3d 574 - People of State of Illinois v. Williams