396 Ill. App. 3d 459 - People v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While it is true, and defendant concedes, that he did not preserve this issue accordingly, we note that we are dealing with a constitutional challenge involving the validity of a statute. Such an argument may be presented at any time, regardless of a violation of technical waiver rules.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re N.H. · In re Edgar C.

2. ““We find no reason to depart from the holding of our sister court on this issue. It is clear to us that, contrary to defendant’s contention here, the armed habitual criminal statute does not punish him for the drug offenses he committed in 1997 before the statute’s effective date but, rather, properly punishes him for, as he himself points out, the new and separate crime he committed in 2006 of possessing firearms while having already been convicted of two prior enumerated felonies, an offense of which he had fair and ample warning. Accordingly, we too hold that the armed habitual criminal statute is not violative of the United States and Illinois constitutional prohibitions against ex post facto legislation.” Bailey, 396 Ill. App. 3d at 464 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 407 Ill. App. 3d 931 - People v. Ross