People v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““[t]he evidence established that defendant came ‘dangerously close’ to burglarizing an apartment and was in possession of burglar’s tools where a witness had observed defendant trying to place a metal object inside the doorknob of her neighbor’s apartment and, minutes later, police found defendant standing in the hallway near the apartment still holding a metal object that was sufficiently established to be a lock pick, as were other such objects found on his person.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 496 F. Supp. 2d 305 - Collins v. Artus