405 Ill. App. 3d 461 - People v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 237 Ill. 2d 490 - People v. Petrenko · 171 Ill. 2d 475 - People v. Washington · 236 Ill. 2d 175 - People v. Brown · 101 Ill. 2d 128 - People v. Molstad · 191 Ill. 2d 168 - People v. Childress
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a defendant claims that his guilty plea was coerced, then that coercion provides the necessary constitutional deprivation for which postconviction relief would be appropriate, but not where he claims actual innocence in the face of a prior, constitutionally valid confession of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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