People v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the majority resolved the case by applying the void ab initio doctrine and declined to address the good-faith exception due to its belief that application of the good-faith exception would be counter to the void ab initio doctrine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 2019 IL App (5th) 180248 - People v. Lambert

2. “[W]here a statute is violative of constitutional guarantees, we have a duty not only to declare such a legislative act void, but also to correct the wrongs wrought through such an act * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Floyd F. (In Re N.G.)

3. “Illinois law is settled that the exclusionary rule is applicable where the police effectuate an extraterritorial arrest without appropriate statutory authority.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2019 IL App (5th) 180248 - People v. Lambert