52 Ill. 2d 94 - People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

181 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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * # The practice of showing photographs of suspects to witnesses is essential to effective law enforcement. The dangers inherent in the practice have been recognized by the United States Supreme Court, but nevertheless, initial identification by photograph has its approval. The Court has held that each case must be considered on its own facts, and that convictions based on in-court identifications following a pretrial identification by photograph, will be set aside on that ground only if the photographic identification procedure was so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. [Citation.] * # # * * * Circumstances may necessitate such procedure and to prohibit it may very well hamper effective law enforcement, # # # The prosecutrix had a good opportunity to observe the defendant. She gave a description of him and the clothing he wore which was sufficiently detailed to enable the police to locate and arrest him within 24 hours. She made an identification from a photograph, identified him in a lineup, and later at the trial * * * We cannot say that the identification of the defendant was so doubtful, vague or uncertain that it produced a conviction which must be reversed. [Citation.]””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 106 Ill. App. 3d 1077 - People v. Wells · 26 Ill. App. 3d 550 - People v. Pierce

2. ““It was the function of the jury to make a determination of the credibility of the alibi witnesses and of the weight to be given to the totality of the testimony. We cannot overturn the verdict of the jury simply because the evidence presented to it was conflicting.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 76 Ill. App. 3d 112 - People v. Neumann

3. ““* * * we affirm the judgment of the trial court finding the defendant guilty of the offense of rape, and we modify the judgments of the trial and appellate courts to specify that sentence was entered for the crime of rape only.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 9 Ill. App. 3d 24 - People v. Budzynski