21 Ill. App. 3d 258 - People v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““We believe that the facts before us constituted probable cause for defendant’s arrest. The arresting officer had information from one person arrested as a member of a robbery gang implicating the defendant and Irving Duffy as members of the gang. Interrogation of Duffy corroborated the fact of defendant’s place of employment and the mutual acquaintance between Irving Duffy and the defendant, and also the fact that defendant was ‘crazy’ and armed. This was far more than the unsolicited and uncorroborated ‘tip’ in Parren [ 24 Ill. 2d 572 , 182 N.E.2d 662 ] and fully justified prompt police action in arresting and searching the defendant.” Denham, at 5.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Jackson