38 Ill. 2d 607 - The PEOPLE v. Ledferd’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 26 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““One who consents to a search waives his constitutional protection against unreasonable search. [Citations.] Whether consent has been given is a question of fact to be determined initially in the trial court, and where the evidence on the issue is in conflict this court will uphold the trial court’s finding unless it is clearly unreasonable. [Citations.] Here, the trial judge found that the defendant consented to the search. It is not within the province of a court of review to assess the credibility of witnesses and a study of the evidence presented at the hearing on the motion to suppress does not lead us to conclude that the court’s finding was unreasonable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 13 Ill. App. 3d 860 - People v. Woods

2. ““There is authority in support of this position (see, e.g., U.S. v. Nikrasch, (7th cir.) 367 F.2d 740 ) and there is authority rejecting it. (See e.g., State v. Andrus, 250 La. 765 , 199 So.2d 867 .) This court is not prepared to hold that the People must show under circumstances such as were concerned here, not only the consent by the defendant to the search, but also that he was advised of rights secured by the fourth amendment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 12 Ill. App. 3d 783 - People v. Bradley