21 Ill. App. 3d 827 - People v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The burden of going forward with the evidence and the burden of proving that a confession was voluntary shall be on the State. Objection to the failure of the State to call all material witnesses on the issue of whether the confession was voluntary must be made in the trial court.” (Emphasis added.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 61 Ill. 2d 383 - People v. Lamb · 36 Ill. App. 3d 695 - People v. Houston

2. ““* * # simply because it would not have come to light but for the illegal actions of the police. Rather, the more apt question in such a case is ‘whether, granting establishment of the primary illegality, the evidence to which instant objection is made has been come at by exploitation of that illegality or instead by means sufficiently distinguishable to be purged of the primary taint.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 22 Ill. App. 3d 741 - People v. Riszowski

3. “This evidence establishes that the respondent was illegally detained, * * *. The evidence also establishes that the respondent was held overnight seated in a chair and handcuffed to a wall, disclosing a police procedure which is to be severely condemned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 61 Ill. 2d 383 - People v. Lamb