256 Ill. App. 3d 560 - People v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our supreme court has stated *** that it will consistently rely upon decisions of the United States Supreme Court based on [flederal constitutional provisions to interpret comparable provisions of the [s]tate constitution, unless the language of the [sítate constitution or the debates and committee reports of the constitutional convention show that the framers intended a different construction. [Citation.] The language of the double jeopardy clause contained in the [sítate constitution is quite similar to that of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution, and our supreme court has relied on the decisions of the United States Supreme Court to interpret the [sítate provision. [Citations.] In Stefan, the court concluded that the appellate court in that case had erroneously relied on supreme court cases decided prior to Grady and overruled those cases insofar as they were inconsistent with Grady. [Citation.] We must avoid committing the same error as the appellate court in Stefan. Accordingly, we adopt Dixon as controlling.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 336 Ill. App. 3d 356 - People v. Gray