Gates v. Towery’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) All those persons who, after March 23, 2002, and before December 14, 2004, had property taken from them upon their arrests by Chicago police officers provided: a) the criminal charges against them have been resolved in the trial court; b) no forfeiture action was commenced against the seized property; c) the time for filing a forfeiture action has expired; d) the property was not inventoried as evidence in any criminal investigation; e) the arrestee was issued an inventory receipt when arrested indicating that the arrestee would be notified when the property was available for pick-up; f) the arrestee never received notice that the property was ready for return; g) the money has not been returned to the arrestee, and h) the arres-tee was not arrested for a narcotics offense. (2) All those persons who, after March 23, 2002, and before December 14, 2004, had property taken from them upon their arrests by Chicago police officers provided: a) the criminal charges against them have been resolved in the trial court; b) no forfeiture action was commenced against the seized property; c) the time for filing a forfeiture action has expired; d) the property was not inventoried as evidence in any criminal investigation; e) the arrestee was issued an inventory receipt when arrested indicating that the arrestee would be notified when the property was available for pick-up; f) the arrestee never received notice that the property was ready for return; g) the money has not been returned to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 507 F. Supp. 2d 904 - Gates v. Towery

2. “All those persons who, after March 23, 2003, had property taken from them upon their arrests by Chicago police officers provided: a) the criminal charges against them have been resolved in the trial court; b) no forfeiture action was commenced against the seized property; c) the time for filing a forfeiture action has expired; d) the property was not inventoried as evidence in any criminal investigation; the arrestee either demanded possession of the money seized or demand would have been futile under the circumstances; and e) the money has not been returned to the arrestee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 507 F. Supp. 2d 904 - Gates v. Towery