The People v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Proof of the precise date as alleged is unnecessary unless the allegation of a special time is an essential ingredient of the crime or the running of the period of limitation. [Citations.] In the prosecution of a criminal offense, the date alleged in the indictment as the time of the commission of the offense may thus be shown to include any time within the period prescribed by law for the prosecution of the crime.” (People v. Taylor (1945), 391 Ill. 11, 14 , 62 N.E.2d 683, 685 , cert. denied (1946), 326 U.S. 784 , 90 L. Ed. 476 , 66 S. Ct. 333 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Tomasello